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Iceland

Zone est – Residency

20th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Zone est
Zone est Confirmed in the catalog @58850
Jun 21 – Jul 8, 2026 · Iceland

Shallow water, good company

Herring's in, the shelf's crowded, and I'm right where I belong.

42 m
Deepest dive
1:45
Longest dive
65
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
17
Deepest dive on record
42 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 202631 m10.2°C27 m
Jun 22, 202631 m10.4°C27 m
Jul 3, 202643 m11.1°C33 m
Jul 5, 202644 m11.1°C33 m
Jul 8, 202654 m10.4°C42 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jun 21Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jun 22Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 5, 2026 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 8, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jul 8

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

Dives

42 m
Deepest dive
1:45
Longest dive
65
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
17
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255042 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (54 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 · Jul 8, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
31 m – 54 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 11.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 18.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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