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Iceland

Silver – Residency

11th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Silver
Silver Confirmed in the catalog @105358
Jul 24 – 27, 2026 · Iceland

Cliffside Summer, Again in Green Water

Cold water, crowded sea, cliffs watching me feed all July.

46 m
Deepest dive
1:59
Longest dive
22
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
3

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 24, 2026107 m8.4°C36 m
Jul 27, 202652 m8.3°C46 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 24, 2026 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 24Jul 27, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jul 27

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

Dives

46 m
Deepest dive
1:59
Longest dive
22
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
3
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255046 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (52 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 27, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m – 107 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.3°C – 8.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 3.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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