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Gulf of Maine

Quixote – Residency

10th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Quixote
Quixote Confirmed in the catalog @75697
Jun 21 – Aug 16, 2024 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine · Jun – Aug 2024

92 m
Deepest dive
4:14
Longest dive
105
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
56

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 2024187 m—92 m
Jun 29, 202430 m—28 m
Jul 1, 202418 m—16 m
Jul 1, 202498 m—82 m
Aug 16, 202459 m—32 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, 2024 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 29, 2024 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 1, 2024 — seafloor 18 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Jul 1Jul 1, 2024 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 1Aug 16, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 16

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

Dives

92 m
Deepest dive
4:14
Longest dive
105
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
56
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010092 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (187 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, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
187 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
18 m – 187 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 36.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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