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Iceland

Wings – Residency

39th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Wings
Wings Confirmed in the catalog @37699
Oct 8 – Dec 7, 2025 · Iceland

Iceland · Oct – Dec 2025

66 m
Deepest dive
3:06
Longest dive
45
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
60

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 8, 202561 m6.1°C48 m
Dec 5, 202584 m4.2°C62 m
Dec 7, 202593 m4.7°C66 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 8, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 8Dec 5, 2025 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Dec 5Dec 7, 2025 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Dec 7

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

Dives

66 m
Deepest dive
3:06
Longest dive
45
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
60
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010066 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (93 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 · Dec 7, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
93 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
61 m – 93 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.2°C – 6.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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