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Iceland

Orb – Residency

12th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Orb
Orb Confirmed in the catalog @130973
May 19 – Jun 22, 2025 · Iceland

Iceland · May – Jun 2025

38 m
Deepest dive
2:15
Longest dive
31
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
34

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 19, 202541 m—38 m
Jun 8, 202539 m—31 m
Jun 18, 202541 m—33 m
Jun 22, 2025-7 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, 2025 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)May 19Jun 8, 2025 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Jun 8Jun 18, 2025 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 18Jun 22, 2025 — seafloor -7 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 22

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

Dives

38 m
Deepest dive
2:15
Longest dive
31
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
34
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255038 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (41 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 · May 19, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
41 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-7 m – 41 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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