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Iceland

HW-MN0200450 – Residency

11th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of HW-MN0200450
HW-MN0200450 Confirmed in the catalog @109296
Jun 9 – 26, 2026 · Iceland

Grey Water, Good Company

Cold shelf water, plenty of company, caught on camera again and again this June.

187 m
Deepest dive
8:20
Longest dive
129
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
16
Deepest dive on record
187 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 9, 2026204 m7.5°C187 m
Jun 10, 2026127 m7.6°C113 m
Jun 11, 202692 m7.6°C74 m
Jun 11, 202663 m7.3°C21 m
Jun 14, 2026206 m7.0°C95 m
Jun 21, 2026165 m8.1°C141 m
Jun 22, 2026130 m8.1°C116 m
Jun 24, 2026123 m8.1°C69 m
Jun 25, 202654 m8.2°C32 m
Jun 26, 2026133 m8.2°C50 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 9, 2026 — seafloor 204 m (measured), deepest dive 187 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 10, 2026 — seafloor 127 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Jun 10Jun 11, 2026 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 11, 2026 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 14, 2026 — seafloor 206 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 165 m (measured), deepest dive 141 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 130 m (measured), deepest dive 116 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jun 24Jun 25, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jun 25Jun 26, 2026 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jun 26

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

Dives

187 m
Deepest dive
8:20
Longest dive
129
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
16
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200187 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (204 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 9, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
204 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.5°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 206 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.0°C – 8.2°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 30.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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