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Iceland

Litteken – Residency

21st sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Litteken
Litteken Confirmed in the catalog @109246
Jun 3 – 12, 2026 · Iceland

Fourth Summer on the Shelf

June light, cold water, good company — this stretch never gets old.

88 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
53
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
9
Deepest dive on record
88 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 3, 202693 m7.2°C59 m
Jun 8, 2026125 m7.5°C88 m
Jun 12, 2026149 m7.5°C82 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 3, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jun 3Jun 8, 2026 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Jun 8Jun 12, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jun 12

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

Dives

88 m
Deepest dive
3:22
Longest dive
53
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
9
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010088 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (125 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 8, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
125 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
93 m – 149 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.2°C – 7.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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