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Iceland

Gosi – Residency

24th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Gosi
Gosi Confirmed in the catalog @66267
Aug 5 – Sep 2, 2026 · Iceland

Westfjords, Late Summer Feast

Herring thick enough that surfacing felt like showing off.

64 m
Deepest dive
3:26
Longest dive
58
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
28

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 5, 2026118 m7.6°C64 m
Aug 16, 202686 m9.7°C43 m
Aug 22, 2026125 m7.3°C56 m
Sep 2, 202617 m9.6°C15 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 5, 2026 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 16, 2026 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 22, 2026 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 22Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 17 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Sep 2

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

Dives

64 m
Deepest dive
3:26
Longest dive
58
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
28
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010064 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (118 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 5, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
118 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.6°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
17 m – 125 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.3°C – 9.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 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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