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Iceland

HW-MN0104561 – Residency

29th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of HW-MN0104561
HW-MN0104561 Confirmed in the catalog @153255
Oct 5 – 6, 2026 · Iceland

Autumn Shelf, My Water

Those cliffs and I have a long, easy history going.

35 m
Deepest dive
1:39
Longest dive
46
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
1
Deepest dive on record
35 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 5, 202633 m9.2°C28 m
Oct 6, 202648 m9.2°C35 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 5, 2026 — seafloor 33 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 6, 2026 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Oct 6

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

Dives

35 m
Deepest dive
1:39
Longest dive
46
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
1
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255035 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (48 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 6, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
48 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.2°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
33 m – 48 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.2°C – 9.2°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km – 14.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 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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