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Iceland

Polini – Residency

24th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Polini
Polini Confirmed in the catalog @124074
May 23 – Jun 25, 2026 · Iceland

Cold Water, Long Memory

Years pile up on this shelf and I only get richer for it.

134 m
Deepest dive
4:36
Longest dive
79
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
33
Deepest dive on record
134 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 23, 202611 m6.7°C10 m
May 23, 202671 m6.7°C60 m
May 23, 202658 m6.7°C52 m
May 24, 202662 m6.8°C50 m
Jun 24, 2026150 m8.2°C134 m
Jun 25, 2026166 m8.2°C81 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 23, 2026 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)May 23May 23, 2026 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)May 23May 23, 2026 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)May 23May 24, 2026 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)May 24Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 134 m (modelled)Jun 24Jun 25, 2026 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Jun 25

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

Dives

134 m
Deepest dive
4:36
Longest dive
79
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
33
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150134 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (150 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 24, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
150 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.2°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
11 m – 166 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.7°C – 8.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 7.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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