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Iceland

Fish – Residency

14th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Fish
Fish Confirmed in the catalog @91398
Apr 27 – Jul 22, 2026 · Iceland

Northern Shelf, Long Ledger

Years piling up out here and the herring still find me.

71 m
Deepest dive
2:38
Longest dive
78
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
85

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 27, 202656 m5.5°C23 m
May 9, 202688 m5.7°C46 m
Jul 19, 202668 m8.9°C27 m
Jul 20, 2026112 m8.9°C71 m
Jul 21, 2026106 m8.9°C49 m
Jul 22, 2026102 m8.9°C49 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 27, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Apr 27May 9, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)May 9Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 22, 2026 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 22

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

Dives

71 m
Deepest dive
2:38
Longest dive
78
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
85
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010071 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (112 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 20, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
112 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m – 112 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.5°C – 8.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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