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Iceland

Orb – Residency

8th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Orb
Orb Confirmed in the catalog @130973
May 19 – Oct 2, 2024 · Iceland

Iceland · May – Oct 2024

103 m
Deepest dive
3:44
Longest dive
132
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
136
Deepest dive on record
103 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 19, 202492 m—45 m
Jun 9, 202480 m—22 m
Jun 11, 202475 m—32 m
Jul 2, 202439 m—22 m
Aug 5, 202499 m—70 m
Sep 25, 2024109 m—76 m
Oct 1, 2024149 m—103 m
Oct 2, 202472 m—59 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 19, 2024 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)May 19Jun 9, 2024 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 11, 2024 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jun 11Jul 2, 2024 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jul 2Aug 5, 2024 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Aug 5Sep 25, 2024 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Sep 25Oct 1, 2024 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Oct 1Oct 2, 2024 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Oct 2

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

Dives

103 m
Deepest dive
3:44
Longest dive
132
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
136
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150103 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (149 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, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
149 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
39 m – 149 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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