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Gulf of Maine

Ibex – Residency

8th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Ibex
Ibex Confirmed in the catalog @7321
Jun 28 – Sep 23, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Another Good Summer of Feeding

Cool green water, full belly, faces I'm glad to see out here.

41 m
Deepest dive
2:10
Longest dive
27
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
87

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 28, 202640 m12.1°C19 m
Sep 18, 2026114 m—27 m
Sep 19, 202673 m—41 m
Sep 23, 202674 m—34 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 28, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jun 28Sep 18, 2026 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 19, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 23, 2026 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Sep 23

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

Dives

41 m
Deepest dive
2:10
Longest dive
27
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
87
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255041 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (73 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 · Sep 19, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 114 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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