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Iceland

Kristjan – Residency

13th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Kristjan
Kristjan Confirmed in the catalog @119998
Jul 4 – 18, 2026 · Iceland

This Green Shelf, July

Mid-summer water, plenty of company, and my tail known to every one of them.

39 m
Deepest dive
1:35
Longest dive
73
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
14

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 4, 202622 m11.1°C19 m
Jul 7, 202628 m10.6°C23 m
Jul 8, 202643 m10.4°C39 m
Jul 9, 202637 m10.5°C32 m
Jul 18, 202634 m10.2°C30 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 4, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 7, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 8, 2026 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 9, 2026 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 18

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

Dives

39 m
Deepest dive
1:35
Longest dive
73
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
14
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255039 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (43 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 8, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 43 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 11.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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