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Iceland

Tortellino – Residency

15th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Tortellino
Tortellino Confirmed in the catalog @109966
Jun 9 – Oct 3, 2026 · Iceland

Iceland, Thick with Whales

Crowded green water all month — I love a busy feeding ground.

35 m
Deepest dive
1:42
Longest dive
147
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
115
Deepest dive on record
35 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 9, 202655 m10.6°C35 m
Jun 11, 202630 m9.6°C14 m
Jun 15, 202630 m10.8°C27 m
Jun 18, 202657 m8.2°C30 m
Jun 21, 202631 m10.2°C23 m
Jun 22, 202621 m10.4°C19 m
Jun 28, 202630 m10.3°C25 m
Jul 3, 20268 m11.2°C7 m
Jul 6, 202641 m11.1°C26 m
Sep 18, 202657 m—22 m
Sep 27, 202635 m—26 m
Oct 3, 202636 m—32 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 55 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 11, 2026 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 15, 2026 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jun 15Jun 18, 2026 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jun 18Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 28, 2026 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jun 28Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 8 m (measured), deepest dive 7 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 6, 2026 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jul 6Sep 18, 2026 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 27Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Oct 3

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

Dives

35 m
Deepest dive
1:42
Longest dive
147
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
115
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255035 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (55 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
55 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.6°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
8 m – 57 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.2°C – 11.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 13.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST 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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