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Iceland

Caterpillar – Residency

12th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Caterpillar
Caterpillar Confirmed in the catalog @140606
Jun 9 – Aug 21, 2025 · Iceland

Iceland · Jun – Aug 2025

147 m
Deepest dive
5:46
Longest dive
137
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
72
Deepest dive on record
147 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 9, 202597 m—20 m
Jun 12, 2025110 m—88 m
Jun 13, 202558 m—48 m
Jun 14, 2025141 m—117 m
Jun 20, 2025193 m—147 m
Jun 25, 202536 m—30 m
Jul 20, 2025166 m—145 m
Jul 23, 202534 m—28 m
Jul 24, 2025149 m—76 m
Aug 1, 2025117 m—63 m
Aug 21, 2025-0 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 9, 2025 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 12, 2025 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Jun 12Jun 13, 2025 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 14, 2025 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 117 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 20, 2025 — seafloor 193 m (measured), deepest dive 147 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 25, 2025 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jun 25Jul 20, 2025 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 145 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 23, 2025 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 24, 2025 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Jul 24Aug 1, 2025 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 21, 2025 — seafloor -0 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 21

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

Dives

147 m
Deepest dive
5:46
Longest dive
137
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
72
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150147 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (193 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 · Jun 20, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
193 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-0 m – 193 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 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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