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Iceland

HW-MN0104731 – Residency

6th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of HW-MN0104731
HW-MN0104731 Confirmed in the catalog @158023
Apr 17 – Jun 23, 2026 · Iceland

Shelf Life, West Iceland

Stayed put, ate well, surfaced among faces I've started to know.

46 m
Deepest dive
2:10
Longest dive
57
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
66
Deepest dive on record
46 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 17, 202637 m5.9°C32 m
May 21, 202651 m8.6°C46 m
May 21, 202644 m8.3°C38 m
Jun 14, 202650 m10.7°C21 m
Jun 22, 202627 m10.4°C21 m
Jun 23, 202643 m10.4°C39 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 17, 2026 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Apr 17May 21, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)May 21May 21, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)May 21Jun 14, 2026 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jun 23

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

Dives

46 m
Deepest dive
2:10
Longest dive
57
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
66
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255046 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (51 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 · May 21, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
51 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.6°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 51 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.9°C – 10.7°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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