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Iceland

Geronimo – Residency

62nd sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Geronimo
Geronimo Confirmed in the catalog @38798
Aug 9 – Oct 14, 2026 · Iceland

Late Summer on the Shelf

Crowded water, good feeding, plenty of company worth surfacing beside.

70 m
Deepest dive
2:50
Longest dive
98
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
66

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 9, 202684 m8.7°C68 m
Aug 9, 202692 m8.7°C32 m
Aug 10, 202694 m8.7°C70 m
Aug 30, 202680 m8.8°C46 m
Sep 1, 202672 m8.7°C20 m
Sep 2, 202679 m8.5°C62 m
Sep 5, 202684 m8.2°C52 m
Sep 7, 202676 m9.4°C39 m
Sep 9, 202680 m9.2°C50 m
Oct 10, 202682 m6.5°C55 m
Oct 14, 202642 m6.8°C26 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 9, 2026 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 9, 2026 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Aug 30Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 5, 2026 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 9, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 9Oct 10, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Oct 10Oct 14, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Oct 14

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

Dives

70 m
Deepest dive
2:50
Longest dive
98
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
66
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010070 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (94 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 · Aug 10, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
94 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
42 m – 94 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.5°C – 9.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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