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Iceland

Banana – Residency

84th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Banana
Banana Confirmed in the catalog @126074
Sep 19 – Oct 21, 2026 · Iceland

Autumn on the Shelf

Shallow water, good company, this coast keeps feeding me right.

40 m
Deepest dive
2:05
Longest dive
111
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
32

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 19, 202611 m10.5°C9 m
Sep 27, 202622 m10.3°C17 m
Sep 28, 202632 m10.0°C28 m
Oct 1, 202651 m8.8°C40 m
Oct 5, 202623 m9.4°C20 m
Oct 6, 202649 m9.2°C37 m
Oct 21, 202611 m8.1°C10 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 19, 2026 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 9 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 28Oct 1, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Oct 1Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 6, 2026 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 21, 2026 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Oct 21

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

Dives

40 m
Deepest dive
2:05
Longest dive
111
Dives
11 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
32
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255040 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (51 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 · Oct 1, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
51 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.8°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
11 m – 51 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.1°C – 10.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 7 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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