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Iceland

HW-MN0104256 – Residency

9th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of HW-MN0104256
HW-MN0104256 Confirmed in the catalog @141316
Jun 21 – Jul 19, 2026 · Iceland

Shallow Shelf, Good Company

Surfaced here more than once this summer, never lonely in this water.

51 m
Deepest dive
2:19
Longest dive
31
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
28

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 202620 m10.2°C16 m
Jul 18, 202657 m10.2°C51 m
Jul 19, 202634 m10.2°C21 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 21, 2026 — seafloor 20 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Jun 21Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 18Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jul 19

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

Dives

51 m
Deepest dive
2:19
Longest dive
31
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
28
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010051 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (57 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 · Jul 18, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
20 m – 57 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 10.2°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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