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Gulf of Maine

Chevron – Residency

5th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Chevron
Chevron Confirmed in the catalog @7344
Jul 29 – Sep 19, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

This Shelf Knows Me

Late summer on my cold green shelf, and the cameras kept finding me.

68 m
Deepest dive
2:52
Longest dive
82
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
52

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 29, 2026108 m14.8°C68 m
Aug 12, 202624 m17.0°C14 m
Aug 16, 202652 m13.4°C42 m
Aug 21, 202680 m15.3°C51 m
Aug 29, 202646 m15.3°C38 m
Sep 2, 202611 m14.3°C10 m
Sep 19, 2026108 m—39 m
Sep 19, 202673 m—50 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 29, 2026 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jul 29Aug 12, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 16, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 21Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 19, 2026 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 19, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 19

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

Dives

68 m
Deepest dive
2:52
Longest dive
82
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
52
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010068 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (108 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 29, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
108 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
11 m – 108 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.4°C – 17.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 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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