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Iceland

Moonlight – Residency

14th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Moonlight
Moonlight Confirmed in the catalog @126077
Jul 24 – Oct 20, 2026 · Iceland

This Bay, Every Summer

Cliffs in sight, feeding good, whales everywhere I look.

58 m
Deepest dive
3:21
Longest dive
42
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
88

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 24, 202636 m8.8°C28 m
Aug 24, 202688 m9.2°C49 m
Oct 6, 2026103 m—51 m
Oct 20, 202684 m—58 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 24, 2026 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jul 24Aug 24, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Aug 24Oct 6, 2026 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 20, 2026 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Oct 20

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

Dives

58 m
Deepest dive
3:21
Longest dive
42
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
88
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010058 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (84 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 20, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
84 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
36 m – 103 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.8°C – 9.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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