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Gulf of Maine

Flame – Residency

7th sighting in Gulf of Maine
Fluke of Flame
Flame Confirmed in the catalog @84127
Aug 8 – Sep 15, 2026 · Gulf of Maine

August on the Shelf

Thick water, good crowd, this ground never lets me down.

32 m
Deepest dive
1:57
Longest dive
18
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
38

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 8, 2026120 m16.4°C29 m
Aug 19, 202651 m15.5°C32 m
Sep 15, 202651 m—25 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 8, 2026 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 19, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 19Sep 15, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 15

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

Dives

32 m
Deepest dive
1:57
Longest dive
18
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
38
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255032 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (51 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 · Aug 19, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
51 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
51 m – 120 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.5°C – 16.4°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 28.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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