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Iceland

David Blowie – Residency

25th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of David Blowie
David Blowie Confirmed in the catalog @66773
May 22 – Jul 13, 2022 · Iceland

Iceland · May – Jul 2022

100 m
Deepest dive
4:22
Longest dive
157
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
52

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 22, 202278 m5.2°C46 m
May 23, 2022100 m5.5°C69 m
May 25, 202292 m5.9°C40 m
May 26, 202275 m6.0°C41 m
May 28, 2022109 m5.9°C82 m
May 30, 202226 m7.0°C23 m
May 31, 202291 m7.3°C58 m
Jun 2, 202294 m7.0°C24 m
Jun 9, 2022174 m6.1°C93 m
Jun 15, 2022164 m6.6°C43 m
Jun 15, 2022149 m6.7°C100 m
Jun 16, 2022180 m6.7°C59 m
Jul 13, 202226 m10.8°C17 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 22, 2022 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)May 22May 23, 2022 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)May 25, 2022 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)May 26, 2022 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)May 26May 28, 2022 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)May 30, 2022 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)May 31, 2022 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)May 31Jun 2, 2022 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jun 9, 2022 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Jun 15, 2022 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jun 15Jun 15, 2022 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Jun 16, 2022 — seafloor 180 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jul 13, 2022 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Jul 13

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

Dives

100 m
Deepest dive
4:22
Longest dive
157
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
52
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150100 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (149 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 · Jun 15, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
149 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.7°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
26 m – 180 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.2°C – 10.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 13.0 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.

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