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Gulf of Maine

Nile – Residency

7th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Nile
Nile Confirmed in the catalog @7345
Sep 6 – 23, 2015 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · Sep 2015

31 m
Deepest dive
1:42
Longest dive
20
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
17

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 6, 201528 m19.3°C24 m
Sep 23, 201543 m18.1°C31 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 6, 2015 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 23, 2015 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Sep 23

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

Dives

31 m
Deepest dive
1:42
Longest dive
20
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
17
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255031 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (43 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 23, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.1°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 43 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.1°C – 19.3°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km – 25.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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