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Iceland

Swot – Residency

20th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Swot
Swot Confirmed in the catalog @37697
Jun 19 – Jul 24, 2026 · Iceland

Nine Summers Strong

This cold green shelf still knows my name better than words do.

37 m
Deepest dive
2:00
Longest dive
69
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
35

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 19, 202638 m8.6°C34 m
Jun 20, 202628 m10.0°C25 m
Jun 23, 202652 m10.4°C37 m
Jun 24, 202627 m10.5°C21 m
Jul 24, 202638 m11.2°C34 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 19, 2026 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 20, 2026 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jun 23Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jun 24Jul 24, 2026 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Jul 24

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

Dives

37 m
Deepest dive
2:00
Longest dive
69
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
35
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255037 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 · Jun 23, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 52 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.6°C – 11.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 14.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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