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Iceland

HW-MN0104662 – Residency

9th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of HW-MN0104662
HW-MN0104662 Confirmed in the catalog @156485
Apr 8 – 30, 2026 · Iceland

April, all along the shelf

Kept the boats busy this April — shallow water, easy company, good lunges.

101 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
91
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
22
Deepest dive on record
101 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 8, 202635 m4.1°C21 m
Apr 13, 202644 m5.3°C32 m
Apr 14, 202654 m5.3°C41 m
Apr 15, 202639 m5.4°C26 m
Apr 15, 202643 m5.4°C39 m
Apr 16, 202639 m5.5°C29 m
Apr 17, 202657 m5.9°C34 m
Apr 30, 2026149 m4.8°C101 m
Apr 30, 202674 m4.8°C68 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 8, 2026 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Apr 8Apr 13, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Apr 13Apr 14, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Apr 14Apr 15, 2026 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Apr 15Apr 15, 2026 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Apr 15Apr 16, 2026 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Apr 16Apr 17, 2026 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Apr 17Apr 30, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Apr 30Apr 30, 2026 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Apr 30

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

Dives

101 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
91
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
22
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150101 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (149 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 · Apr 30, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
149 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.8°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
35 m – 149 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.1°C – 5.9°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 13.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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