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Iceland

Lavagirl – Residency

34th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Lavagirl
Lavagirl Confirmed in the catalog @58843
May 9 – 17, 2026 · Iceland

Slate Water Season

Spring feed thick, cliffs grey, whole crew watching me work.

87 m
Deepest dive
2:59
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
8

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 9, 2026109 m4.3°C87 m
May 14, 202615 m5.2°C14 m
May 16, 202631 m5.8°C27 m
May 17, 20269 m5.9°C8 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 9, 2026 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)May 9May 14, 2026 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)May 14May 16, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)May 16May 17, 2026 — seafloor 9 m (measured), deepest dive 8 m (modelled)May 17

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

Dives

87 m
Deepest dive
2:59
Longest dive
39
Dives
13 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
8
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010087 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (109 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 · May 9, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.3°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
9 m – 109 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.3°C – 5.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST 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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