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Gulf of Maine

Magpie – Residency

14th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Magpie
Magpie Confirmed in the catalog @7319
Jul 1 – 14, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Shelf Water Regular

Shallow water, good crowd, shore in sight — July doesn't get better than this.

43 m
Deepest dive
2:30
Longest dive
36
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
13

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 1, 202678 m13.8°C39 m
Jul 5, 202641 m14.0°C35 m
Jul 12, 202652 m14.4°C27 m
Jul 14, 202650 m14.6°C43 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 1, 2026 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 1Jul 5, 2026 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 12, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 14, 2026 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 14

Depth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.

Dives

43 m
Deepest dive
2:30
Longest dive
36
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
13
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255043 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (50 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 14, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
50 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
41 m – 78 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.8°C – 14.6°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 10.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

Sighting records from Happywhale, published as occurrence data via GBIF. Individual records are licensed CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0, depending on the contributor.

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