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Iceland

HW-MN0103163 – Residency

71st sighting in Iceland
Fluke of HW-MN0103163
HW-MN0103163 Confirmed in the catalog @98272
May 3 – Oct 10, 2026 · Iceland

Cliffs at My Back Again

Herring's running, crowd's in, cliffs watching — good stretch out here.

46 m
Deepest dive
2:06
Longest dive
250
Dives
Sightings
22
Days between first and last sighting
160

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 3, 202645 m6.8°C32 m
May 27, 202626 m8.6°C8 m
May 29, 202651 m8.6°C40 m
Jun 6, 202647 m10.3°C32 m
Jun 7, 202646 m10.3°C23 m
Jun 8, 202655 m10.6°C45 m
Jun 10, 202648 m10.9°C39 m
Jun 11, 202653 m9.6°C33 m
Jun 12, 202653 m10.1°C38 m
Jun 15, 202654 m10.7°C46 m
Jun 17, 202657 m7.4°C22 m
Jun 22, 202638 m10.4°C22 m
Jul 24, 202630 m11.3°C23 m
Jul 27, 202623 m10.7°C14 m
Aug 3, 202624 m10.7°C22 m
Sep 25, 202649 m10.0°C39 m
Sep 26, 202653 m10.0°C43 m
Sep 27, 202635 m10.0°C26 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 3, 2026 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)May 3May 27, 2026 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 8 m (modelled)May 29, 2026 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jun 6, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jun 7, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 7Jun 8, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jun 10, 2026 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jun 11, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 12, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jun 12Jun 15, 2026 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jun 17, 2026 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jul 24, 2026 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 24Jul 27, 2026 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Aug 3, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 28, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Oct 1, 2026 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Oct 7, 2026 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Oct 7Oct 10, 2026 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)

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

Dives

46 m
Deepest dive
2:06
Longest dive
250
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
22
Sightings
160
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255046 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (54 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Jun 15, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.7°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 22 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
23 m – 57 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.8°C – 11.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 16.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 22 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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