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Iceland

Tripod – Residency

84th sighting in Iceland
Fluke of Tripod
Tripod Confirmed in the catalog @98220
Aug 18 – Oct 22, 2026 · Iceland

Late Summer, Same Cliffs

Cold water, full belly, cliffs watching — late summer just gets it right.

72 m
Deepest dive
2:36
Longest dive
128
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
65

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 18, 2026-0 m8.7°C—
Aug 31, 202680 m8.7°C15 m
Sep 1, 202683 m8.7°C36 m
Sep 2, 202680 m8.6°C23 m
Sep 7, 202678 m9.3°C72 m
Sep 24, 2026129 m7.8°C54 m
Sep 25, 202675 m8.0°C62 m
Sep 30, 2026103 m8.0°C55 m
Oct 5, 2026103 m6.7°C38 m
Oct 11, 2026105 m6.8°C45 m
Oct 14, 202654 m6.9°C43 m
Oct 21, 202673 m5.9°C37 m
Oct 22, 202678 m5.4°C64 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 18, 2026 — seafloor -0 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 18Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2026 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 2, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Sep 24, 2026 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 30, 2026 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Oct 5, 2026 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Oct 11, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Oct 11Oct 14, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Oct 21, 2026 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Oct 22, 2026 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Oct 22

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

Dives

72 m
Deepest dive
2:36
Longest dive
128
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
65
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010072 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (78 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 7, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
78 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-0 m – 129 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.4°C – 9.3°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 13 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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