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Gulf of Maine

Kraken – Residency

5th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Kraken
Kraken Confirmed in the catalog @75034
Jun 24 – Sep 9, 2025 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · Jun – Sep 2025

74 m
Deepest dive
2:43
Longest dive
42
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
77
Deepest dive on record
74 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 202519 m—17 m
Aug 11, 202546 m—40 m
Sep 2, 2025112 m—73 m
Sep 9, 2025169 m—74 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 24, 2025 — seafloor 19 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Jun 24Aug 11, 2025 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 11Sep 2, 2025 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 9, 2025 — seafloor 169 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Sep 9

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

Dives

74 m
Deepest dive
2:43
Longest dive
42
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
77
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010074 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (169 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 9, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
169 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
35.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
19 m – 169 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 35.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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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