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Iceland

162125 – Residency

9th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of 162125
162125 Confirmed in the catalog @162125
Jul 21 – Oct 11, 2026 · Iceland

Same Bay, All Summer

Shallow water, cold current, familiar backs — I stayed put.

47 m
Deepest dive
2:01
Longest dive
135
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
82
Deepest dive on record
47 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 21, 202637 m10.2°C22 m
Aug 27, 202631 m11.5°C25 m
Sep 3, 202652 m11.4°C41 m
Sep 4, 202637 m11.3°C28 m
Sep 5, 202656 m11.4°C25 m
Sep 25, 202628 m—20 m
Sep 27, 202635 m—28 m
Sep 28, 202625 m—23 m
Oct 11, 202652 m—47 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jul 21Aug 27, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Aug 27Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 4, 2026 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 27Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Sep 28Oct 11, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Oct 11

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

Dives

47 m
Deepest dive
2:01
Longest dive
135
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
82
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255047 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (52 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 11, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
25 m – 56 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 11.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 12.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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