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Iceland

162129 – Residency

27th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of 162129
162129 Confirmed in the catalog @162129
Jul 13 – Oct 5, 2026 · Iceland

Same Shelf, All Summer

Stayed put off Iceland, surfacing again and again into the same grey light.

46 m
Deepest dive
2:18
Longest dive
286
Dives
Sightings
27
Days between first and last sighting
84
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)
Jul 13, 202631 m9.8°C26 m
Aug 19, 202657 m11.6°C37 m
Aug 20, 202631 m11.7°C28 m
Aug 21, 202651 m11.6°C43 m
Aug 23, 202621 m11.1°C18 m
Aug 24, 202626 m11.1°C16 m
Aug 25, 202639 m11.2°C34 m
Aug 26, 202652 m11.4°C41 m
Aug 27, 202653 m11.5°C43 m
Aug 28, 202641 m11.4°C14 m
Aug 29, 202650 m11.6°C41 m
Aug 30, 202644 m12.0°C39 m
Aug 31, 202633 m11.9°C30 m
Sep 1, 202648 m11.8°C43 m
Sep 2, 202656 m11.8°C39 m
Sep 3, 202652 m—40 m
Sep 4, 202655 m11.3°C45 m
Sep 5, 202617 m11.3°C13 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 13, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jul 13Aug 19, 2026 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 20, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 23, 2026 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Aug 24, 2026 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Aug 24Aug 25, 2026 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 26, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 27, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 28, 2026 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 33 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 4, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 17 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 9, 2026 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 11, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 13, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Sep 19, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 20, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Sep 27Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)

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

Dives

46 m
Deepest dive
2:18
Longest dive
286
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
27
Sightings
84
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255046 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (53 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 13, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 27 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
17 m – 57 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.8°C – 12.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 24.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 27 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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