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Iceland

HW-MN0104771 – Residency

7th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of HW-MN0104771
HW-MN0104771 Confirmed in the catalog @158403
May 10 – 20, 2026 · Iceland

Spring Shelf, Good Company

Cold green water, crowded company, and me right in the thick of it.

55 m
Deepest dive
2:18
Longest dive
69
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
10
Deepest dive on record
55 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 10, 202644 m4.3°C16 m
May 11, 202641 m4.9°C34 m
May 14, 202640 m5.4°C28 m
May 16, 202631 m5.8°C24 m
May 17, 202664 m5.8°C37 m
May 18, 202640 m6.1°C35 m
May 20, 2026149 m6.0°C55 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 10, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)May 10May 11, 2026 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)May 11May 14, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)May 14May 16, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)May 16May 17, 2026 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)May 17May 18, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)May 18May 20, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)May 20

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

Dives

55 m
Deepest dive
2:18
Longest dive
69
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
10
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010055 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 · May 20, 2026

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

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
31 m – 149 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.3°C – 6.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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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