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Iceland

NA-6495 – Residency

70th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of NA-6495
NA-6495 Confirmed in the catalog @6714
Oct 2 – 17, 2026 · Iceland

Autumn by the Shore

Two passes this October, and the water still knows my name.

62 m
Deepest dive
2:34
Longest dive
16
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
15

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 2, 202683 m7.8°C32 m
Oct 17, 2026149 m6.8°C62 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 2, 2026 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 17, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Oct 17

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

Dives

62 m
Deepest dive
2:34
Longest dive
16
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
15
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010062 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 · Oct 17, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
149 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.8°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
83 m – 149 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.8°C – 7.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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