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Gulf of Maine

Nile – Residency

21st sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Nile
Nile Confirmed in the catalog @7345
Jun 21 – Aug 4, 2023 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · Jun – Aug 2023

37 m
Deepest dive
1:22
Longest dive
25
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
44

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 202360 m16.2°C37 m
Jun 29, 202328 m19.3°C12 m
Jul 5, 202328 m19.6°C25 m
Aug 4, 202330 m19.3°C16 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 21, 2023 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 29, 2023 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 5, 2023 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jul 5Aug 4, 2023 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Aug 4

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

Dives

37 m
Deepest dive
1:22
Longest dive
25
Dives
13 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
44
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255037 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (60 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 · Jun 21, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
60 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.2°C
Distance from shore
17.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 60 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.2°C – 19.6°C
Distance from shore
17.0 km – 30.0 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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