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Iceland

Kajaraven – Residency

16th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Kajaraven
Kajaraven Confirmed in the catalog @124046
Jan 9 – Feb 23, 2024 · Iceland

Iceland · Jan – Feb 2024

24 m
Deepest dive
1:26
Longest dive
139
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
45

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jan 9, 202428 m6.8°C24 m
Jan 16, 202420 m4.3°C16 m
Jan 18, 202414 m3.9°C11 m
Jan 20, 202420 m4.0°C13 m
Jan 21, 202420 m4.6°C18 m
Jan 22, 202416 m4.6°C14 m
Feb 1, 202423 m5.4°C20 m
Feb 4, 202418 m4.9°C16 m
Feb 6, 202423 m4.4°C20 m
Feb 12, 202416 m2.8°C11 m
Feb 18, 202420 m5.6°C18 m
Feb 23, 202424 m2.4°C22 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jan 9, 2024 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jan 9Jan 16, 2024 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Jan 16Jan 18, 2024 — seafloor 14 m (measured), deepest dive 11 m (modelled)Jan 18Jan 20, 2024 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Jan 20Jan 21, 2024 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jan 21Jan 22, 2024 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Jan 22Feb 1, 2024 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Feb 1Feb 4, 2024 — seafloor 18 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Feb 4Feb 6, 2024 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Feb 6Feb 12, 2024 — seafloor 16 m (measured), deepest dive 11 m (modelled)Feb 12Feb 18, 2024 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Feb 18Feb 23, 2024 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Feb 23

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

Dives

24 m
Deepest dive
1:26
Longest dive
139
Dives
10 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
45
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255024 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (28 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 · Jan 9, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
14 m – 28 m
Sea-surface temperature
2.4°C – 6.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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