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Iceland

Ilias – Residency

40th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Ilias
Ilias Confirmed in the catalog @91400
Jul 9 – 26, 2026 · Iceland

Summer, Fully Booked

Cameras clicking all month — I'm clearly the shelf's best show.

86 m
Deepest dive
3:41
Longest dive
68
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
17

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 9, 2026103 m8.6°C53 m
Jul 10, 2026110 m8.5°C69 m
Jul 18, 2026109 m8.9°C54 m
Jul 23, 202691 m8.9°C53 m
Jul 24, 2026109 m8.6°C46 m
Jul 26, 2026132 m8.5°C86 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 9, 2026 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 10, 2026 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 18, 2026 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jul 18Jul 23, 2026 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 24, 2026 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jul 24Jul 26, 2026 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Jul 26

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

Dives

86 m
Deepest dive
3:41
Longest dive
68
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
17
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010086 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (132 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 26, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
132 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
91 m – 132 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C – 8.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 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.

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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