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Iceland

Skipper – Residency

18th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Skipper
Skipper Confirmed in the catalog @140607
May 13 – Jun 29, 2026 · Iceland

This Patch, My Patch

Cliffs in view, water rich, no reason to be anywhere else.

89 m
Deepest dive
3:09
Longest dive
164
Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
47
Deepest dive on record
89 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 13, 202668 m5.3°C29 m
May 14, 202640 m5.4°C28 m
May 18, 202640 m6.1°C15 m
May 19, 202662 m6.1°C54 m
May 22, 202693 m6.2°C49 m
Jun 3, 202693 m7.2°C67 m
Jun 11, 2026118 m7.5°C63 m
Jun 12, 202668 m7.8°C56 m
Jun 13, 202641 m7.9°C27 m
Jun 15, 2026106 m7.8°C40 m
Jun 17, 202639 m6.5°C28 m
Jun 22, 2026122 m8.2°C89 m
Jun 27, 202686 m8.4°C58 m
Jun 29, 202696 m8.3°C57 m
Jun 29, 202629 m8.4°C26 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 13, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)May 13May 14, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)May 18, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)May 19, 2026 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)May 19May 22, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jun 3, 2026 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jun 11, 2026 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 12, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jun 13, 2026 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jun 15, 2026 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jun 15Jun 17, 2026 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Jun 27, 2026 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jun 27Jun 29, 2026 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jun 29, 2026 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)

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

Dives

89 m
Deepest dive
3:09
Longest dive
164
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
15
Sightings
47
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010089 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (122 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 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
122 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
29 m – 122 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.3°C – 8.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 15 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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