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Gulf of Maine

Gondolier – Residency

13th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Gondolier
Gondolier Confirmed in the catalog @7707
Jul 6 – Aug 29, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

Gulf of Maine, still generous

Green water, full belly, good company — this shelf never shorts me.

104 m
Deepest dive
3:21
Longest dive
50
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
54
Deepest dive on record
104 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 6, 2026144 m14.2°C104 m
Jul 7, 2026198 m14.0°C82 m
Aug 28, 202651 m15.5°C44 m
Aug 29, 202647 m14.9°C40 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 6, 2026 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Jul 6Jul 7, 2026 — seafloor 198 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 7Aug 28, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Aug 28Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 29

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

Dives

104 m
Deepest dive
3:21
Longest dive
50
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
54
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150104 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (144 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 6, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
144 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.2°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 198 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.0°C – 15.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 10.0 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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