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Iceland

Archaisch – Residency

47th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Archaisch
Archaisch Confirmed in the catalog @91259
May 13 – Sep 4, 2026 · Iceland

Iceland, All Summer Long

Grey mornings, good feeding, boats that never seem to stop finding me.

155 m
Deepest dive
4:53
Longest dive
196
Dives
Sightings
17
Days between first and last sighting
114
Deepest dive on record
155 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 13, 202668 m5.3°C39 m
May 14, 202667 m5.4°C35 m
May 18, 202640 m6.1°C30 m
May 19, 202667 m6.1°C49 m
May 27, 202639 m7.0°C33 m
Jun 8, 2026126 m7.5°C107 m
Jun 11, 2026149 m7.3°C30 m
Jun 12, 2026171 m7.5°C93 m
Jun 13, 2026218 m7.6°C155 m
Jun 17, 202697 m6.4°C86 m
Jun 18, 2026163 m7.6°C79 m
Jun 23, 2026190 m8.3°C32 m
Aug 31, 2026209 m8.7°C118 m
Sep 1, 2026149 m8.8°C54 m
Sep 2, 2026169 m8.4°C76 m
Sep 2, 2026166 m8.4°C34 m
Sep 4, 2026149 m7.7°C125 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 13, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)May 13May 14, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)May 18, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)May 19, 2026 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)May 19May 27, 2026 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 8, 2026 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Jun 11, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 12, 2026 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Jun 13, 2026 — seafloor 218 m (measured), deepest dive 155 m (modelled)Jun 17, 2026 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 18, 2026 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 190 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 209 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 169 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 4, 2026 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 125 m (modelled)

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

Dives

155 m
Deepest dive
4:53
Longest dive
196
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
17
Sightings
114
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200155 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (218 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

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Place

Where this happened · Jun 13, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
218 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.6°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 17 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
39 m – 218 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.3°C – 8.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 17 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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