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Iceland

Pipette – Residency

24th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Pipette
Pipette Confirmed in the catalog @82786
Jul 19 – Aug 16, 2026 · Iceland

Westfjords, Late Summer Glow

Cliffs in view, feed thick, another good stretch on my shelf of water.

51 m
Deepest dive
2:24
Longest dive
26
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)
Jul 19, 2026118 m6.0°C51 m
Jul 22, 2026120 m8.1°C51 m
Aug 5, 2026120 m7.6°C36 m
Aug 16, 2026117 m9.6°C48 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 22, 2026 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 22Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 16, 2026 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 16

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

Dives

51 m
Deepest dive
2:24
Longest dive
26
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
28
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010051 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 · Jul 19, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
118 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
117 m – 120 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.0°C – 9.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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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