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Iceland

Porcupine – Residency

6th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Porcupine
Porcupine Confirmed in the catalog @22716
Jul 6 – Aug 27, 2012 · Iceland

Iceland · Jul – Aug 2012

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
52

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 6, 2012158 m10.5°C—
Aug 3, 2012109 m11.5°C—
Aug 20, 2012109 m10.6°C—
Aug 23, 2012109 m9.8°C—
Aug 24, 2012109 m9.7°C—
Aug 27, 2012109 m9.7°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 6, 2012 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 6Aug 3, 2012 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 3Aug 20, 2012 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 20Aug 23, 2012 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 23Aug 24, 2012 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 24Aug 27, 2012 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 27

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
52
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Aug 27, 2012

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m – 158 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.7°C – 11.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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