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Iceland

Saskia – Residency

11th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Saskia
Saskia Confirmed in the catalog @140040
May 4 – 31, 2025 · Iceland

Iceland · May 2025

140 m
Deepest dive
6:29
Longest dive
122
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
27
Deepest dive on record
140 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 4, 2025149 m—120 m
May 6, 2025115 m—20 m
May 8, 2025149 m—77 m
May 14, 2025149 m—55 m
May 15, 2025178 m—37 m
May 16, 2025162 m—38 m
May 20, 2025127 m—90 m
May 21, 2025154 m—140 m
May 22, 2025149 m—125 m
May 27, 2025150 m—63 m
May 31, 2025206 m—56 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 4, 2025 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)May 4May 6, 2025 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)May 6May 8, 2025 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)May 8May 14, 2025 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)May 14May 15, 2025 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)May 15May 16, 2025 — seafloor 162 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)May 16May 20, 2025 — seafloor 127 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)May 20May 21, 2025 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 140 m (modelled)May 21May 22, 2025 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 125 m (modelled)May 22May 27, 2025 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)May 27May 31, 2025 — seafloor 206 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)May 31

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

Dives

140 m
Deepest dive
6:29
Longest dive
122
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
27
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150140 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (154 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 21, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
154 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
115 m – 206 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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