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Iceland

Monster – Residency

35th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Monster
Monster Confirmed in the catalog @105316
May 2 – Jun 21, 2026 · Iceland

Springtime Off the Cliffs

Herring thick, lens ready, me making a scene as usual.

159 m
Deepest dive
6:11
Longest dive
113
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
50
Deepest dive on record
159 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 2, 202668 m4.0°C34 m
May 2, 202673 m4.1°C47 m
May 9, 2026117 m4.2°C99 m
May 14, 202640 m5.4°C24 m
May 18, 202640 m6.1°C30 m
May 19, 202667 m6.1°C41 m
Jun 3, 202693 m7.2°C26 m
Jun 4, 2026100 m7.2°C33 m
Jun 7, 202680 m7.3°C47 m
Jun 17, 2026105 m6.5°C74 m
Jun 18, 202690 m7.6°C73 m
Jun 21, 2026193 m8.2°C159 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 2, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)May 2May 2, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)May 2May 9, 2026 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)May 9May 14, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)May 14May 18, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)May 18May 19, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)May 19Jun 3, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jun 3Jun 4, 2026 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 4Jun 7, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jun 7Jun 17, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 18, 2026 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jun 18Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 193 m (measured), deepest dive 159 m (modelled)Jun 21

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

Dives

159 m
Deepest dive
6:11
Longest dive
113
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
50
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200159 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (193 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, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
193 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.2°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 193 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.0°C – 8.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 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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