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Iceland

Agate – Residency

49th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Agate
Agate Confirmed in the catalog @37692
May 17 – Jul 22, 2026 · Iceland

Nine Summers Strong on the Shelf

Green shallows, cold water, more faces than I can count — this is my patch.

102 m
Deepest dive
4:31
Longest dive
134
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
65
Deepest dive on record
102 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 17, 202655 m5.9°C47 m
May 22, 2026149 m6.4°C100 m
May 23, 202658 m6.7°C47 m
May 23, 202671 m6.7°C58 m
May 25, 202694 m7.0°C42 m
May 26, 202622 m6.9°C18 m
May 27, 202640 m7.0°C37 m
May 27, 202639 m7.0°C30 m
Jun 16, 2026197 m7.8°C102 m
Jul 22, 202646 m11.0°C23 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 17, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)May 17May 22, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)May 22May 23, 2026 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)May 23May 23, 2026 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)May 23May 25, 2026 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)May 25May 26, 2026 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)May 26May 27, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)May 27May 27, 2026 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)May 27Jun 16, 2026 — seafloor 197 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Jun 16Jul 22, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 22

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

Dives

102 m
Deepest dive
4:31
Longest dive
134
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
65
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150102 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (197 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 · Jun 16, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
197 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.8°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 197 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.9°C – 11.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 7.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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