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Iceland

Drogon – Residency

23rd sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Drogon
Drogon Confirmed in the catalog @37706
Aug 31, 2022 – Feb 3, 2023 · Iceland

Iceland · Aug 2022 – Feb 2023

57 m
Deepest dive
1:44
Longest dive
30
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
156

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 31, 2022172 m9.2°C23 m
Oct 31, 202295 m5.4°C57 m
Jan 28, 202350 m3.3°C32 m
Feb 3, 202380 m3.3°C35 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 31, 2022 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Aug 31Oct 31, 2022 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Oct 31Jan 28, 2023 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jan 28Feb 3, 2023 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Feb 3

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

Dives

57 m
Deepest dive
1:44
Longest dive
30
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
156
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010057 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (95 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 · Oct 31, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
95 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
50 m – 172 m
Sea-surface temperature
3.3°C – 9.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 4 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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