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Iceland

Bjarne – Residency

60th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Bjarne
Bjarne Confirmed in the catalog @58826
May 13 – Oct 14, 2026 · Iceland

Westfjords, All Summer Long

Cliffs, cold water, good fish—exactly where I mean to be.

174 m
Deepest dive
5:26
Longest dive
137
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
154
Deepest dive on record
174 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 13, 202650 m5.1°C44 m
Aug 10, 2026215 m8.4°C174 m
Aug 11, 2026178 m8.8°C136 m
Aug 12, 2026152 m9.3°C118 m
Aug 25, 2026-0 m8.9°C—
Sep 6, 2026105 m8.8°C38 m
Oct 2, 2026115 m7.8°C70 m
Oct 3, 2026115 m7.3°C101 m
Oct 6, 2026115 m7.0°C68 m
Oct 7, 2026115 m7.0°C35 m
Oct 9, 2026103 m7.0°C59 m
Oct 11, 2026105 m6.8°C59 m
Oct 14, 202654 m6.9°C41 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 13, 2026 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)May 13Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 215 m (measured), deepest dive 174 m (modelled)Aug 11, 2026 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 136 m (modelled)Aug 12, 2026 — seafloor 152 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 25, 2026 — seafloor -0 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Oct 2, 2026 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Oct 6, 2026 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Oct 7, 2026 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 9, 2026 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Oct 11, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Oct 14, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Oct 14

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

Dives

174 m
Deepest dive
5:26
Longest dive
137
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
154
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200174 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (215 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 10, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
215 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.4°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-0 m – 215 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.1°C – 9.3°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 13 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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