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Iceland

Kirk – Residency

37th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Kirk
Kirk Confirmed in the catalog @16839
Jul 25 – Oct 18, 2024 · Iceland

Iceland · Jul – Oct 2024

127 m
Deepest dive
4:51
Longest dive
120
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
85
Deepest dive on record
127 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 25, 2024124 m9.1°C26 m
Jul 25, 2024140 m9.0°C76 m
Jul 25, 2024149 m9.0°C127 m
Jul 31, 2024155 m9.9°C111 m
Aug 14, 2024129 m10.3°C56 m
Aug 14, 2024100 m10.3°C36 m
Aug 15, 2024181 m10.0°C96 m
Aug 16, 2024146 m8.2°C115 m
Oct 16, 2024109 m4.3°C87 m
Oct 17, 2024109 m4.1°C66 m
Oct 18, 2024109 m4.0°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
Jul 25, 2024 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 25, 2024 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 25, 2024 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 127 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 31, 2024 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 111 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 14, 2024 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 14, 2024 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 15, 2024 — seafloor 181 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 16, 2024 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Aug 16Oct 16, 2024 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 17, 2024 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Oct 17Oct 18, 2024 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Oct 18

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

Dives

127 m
Deepest dive
4:51
Longest dive
120
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
85
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150127 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (149 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Jul 25, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
149 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.0°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
100 m – 181 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.0°C – 10.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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