Balou – Residency
54th sighting in Iceland
Balou @82777
Jul 6 – Oct 24, 2026 · Iceland
Icelandic Waters, Late Summer
Boats keep finding my tail off these headlands, good company all season.
154 m
Deepest dive
6:45
Longest dive
89
Dives
- Sightings
- 8
- Days between first and last sighting
- 110
- Deepest dive on record
- 154 m · this residency
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2026 | 261 m | 8.3°C | 43 m |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 149 m | 8.6°C | 88 m |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 216 m | 8.7°C | 79 m |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 216 m | 8.7°C | 154 m |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 90 m | 9.0°C | 68 m |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 163 m | 7.3°C | 94 m |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 93 m | 5.7°C | 54 m |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 54 m | 5.9°C | 30 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
154 m
Deepest dive
6:45
Longest dive
89
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
110
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (216 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Aug 31, 2026
measured- Seafloor depth
- 216 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 8.7°C
- Distance from shore
- 3.0 km
Across the residency · 8 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 54 m – 261 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 5.7°C – 9.0°C
- Distance from shore
- 1.0 km – 9.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.