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Iceland

LaVale – Residency

29th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of LaVale
LaVale Confirmed in the catalog @105325
May 30 – Jul 13, 2026 · Iceland

Fourth Summer, Same Shelf, New Proof

Confirmed female this time — the water already knew.

151 m
Deepest dive
5:21
Longest dive
183
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
43
Deepest dive on record
151 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 30, 202693 m6.8°C83 m
Jun 1, 202693 m6.8°C20 m
Jun 3, 202693 m7.2°C71 m
Jun 4, 202659 m7.2°C29 m
Jun 15, 2026119 m7.7°C78 m
Jun 21, 2026193 m8.2°C140 m
Jun 28, 202680 m8.5°C41 m
Jul 1, 2026114 m8.6°C97 m
Jul 2, 202686 m9.0°C47 m
Jul 7, 2026110 m8.4°C82 m
Jul 9, 2026201 m8.5°C151 m
Jul 13, 202662 m8.8°C53 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 30, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)May 30Jun 1, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jun 1Jun 3, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jun 3Jun 4, 2026 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jun 4Jun 15, 2026 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Jun 15Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 193 m (measured), deepest dive 140 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 28, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jun 28Jul 1, 2026 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jul 1Jul 2, 2026 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 2Jul 7, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 9, 2026 — seafloor 201 m (measured), deepest dive 151 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 13, 2026 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jul 13

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

Dives

151 m
Deepest dive
5:21
Longest dive
183
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
43
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200151 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (201 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 9, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
201 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
59 m – 201 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.8°C – 9.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 5.0 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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