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Iceland

Tractor – Residency

15th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Tractor
Tractor Confirmed in the catalog @132649
Oct 2 – 12, 2026 · Iceland

Autumn, My Water

Mid-autumn in Iceland, my fluke doing all the talking again out here.

117 m
Deepest dive
3:59
Longest dive
19
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
10
Deepest dive on record
117 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 2, 2026198 m—32 m
Oct 8, 2026149 m—117 m
Oct 12, 2026149 m—92 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 2, 2026 — seafloor 198 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 8, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 117 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 12, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Oct 12

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

Dives

117 m
Deepest dive
3:59
Longest dive
19
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
10
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150117 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 8, 2026

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

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
149 m – 198 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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