Recent cetacean sightings

Date Time Species Adult Juveniles Behaviour Duration Location Observer
June 15, 2020 16:30 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 10

South of Kitterland

Phill m
June 15, 2020 16:15 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 3

Outside Port Erin bay

Nina & Dermot Shimmin
June 15, 2020 12:15 Risso’s Dolphin 6 0 Normal swimming 240

Port St Mary to Warts bank (south of the Calf)

Steve Wright, Alexander and Geoff and Jane Cork
June 14, 2020 19:20 Harbour Porpoise 1 1 Feeding or foraging 10

Castletown Bay

Lindsay Rowe
June 14, 2020 16:20 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Feeding or foraging 10

Off Niarbyl

Nina & Dermot Shimmin
June 13, 2020 15:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Normal swimming 5

Blue Point

Mick
June 10, 2020 10:50 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 1

Derbyhaven breakwater

Liz Charter
June 9, 2020 12:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Normal swimming 15

Blue Point

Nick Pinder
June 9, 2020 10:00 Risso’s Dolphin 4 0 Blowing 30

Fort Island

Samuel and Euan Kinnish
June 9, 2020 12:30 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Normal swimming 5

West of The Sound

Steve Wright
June 9, 2020 13:00 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Leaping 30

East of the Sound

Steve Wright, Neil Barron, Jen A
June 9, 2020 15:15 Risso’s Dolphin 7 0 Normal swimming 25

West of the Sound

Jen, Neil, Jean, Howard & Andrea
June 8, 2020 16:35 Risso’s Dolphin 1 0 Normal swimming 5

Marine drive toll gate

Brian Liggins
June 2, 2020 08:00 Risso’s Dolphin 6 0 Fast swim or porpoising 180

West of the Sound

Adam Tansey-Scales and Em
June 2, 2020 10:00 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Normal swimming 5

Derbyhaven

Liz Charter

Recent basking shark sightings

Date Time # of sharks (<2m) # of sharks (2-8m) # of sharks (>8m) Total # of Sharks Behaviour Duration Location Observer
July 27, 2022 13:00 1 Tight circling 10 Gibdale Point Peter Kay
July 18, 2022 19:37 1 Suspected feeding 5 Nine and a half miles NW of Calf Sound Nina Shimmin
July 16, 2022 18:00 1 Suspected feeding 80 Port Erin undeleeb din, Elasmomann
July 14, 2022 07:30 1 Suspected feeding 5 3 miles off Contrary head Max Crookall
July 12, 2022 03:00 2 Swimming 120 Port Erin Bay Charles Leclerc
July 11, 2022 10:40 1 1 Suspected feeding 7 1nm SE of South Harbour, Calf of Man David Bellamy & Robert Fisher
July 10, 2022 21:20 1 Suspected feeding 6 Three and a half miles NW of Calf Sound Dermot Shimmin
July 5, 2022 09:00 1 3 Suspected feeding 120 1 km off White Strand & Gob-Y-Deigan Ian Judd
July 5, 2022 15:45 1 Swimming 15 Niarbyl Bay Georgina Franks, Lauren Slater
July 5, 2022 15:00 1 1 Swimming 180 Peel breakwater Colin Lawrenson, Alistair Sutherland and other
July 4, 2022 12:00 3 Suspected feeding 200 Peel breakwater to the headlands Andi young, Neil Westwood, The Mitchell family
July 3, 2022 14:00 1 Suspected feeding 5 Glen Maye – Peel Hill David R
July 3, 2022 15:55 1 Suspected feeding 10 150-200m off Peel Castle Mike Davies
June 30, 2022 13:50 1 1 Suspected feeding 15 Scarlett Virginia Keig
June 30, 2022 16:24 0 0 1 Swimming 2 North coast of the Calf of Man Tom Morgan and Gemma Scotts