Recent cetacean sightings

Date Time Species Adult Juveniles Behaviour Duration Location Observer
August 2, 2019 20:15 Common Dolphin 20 0 Normal swimming 25

Laxey Bay

Shane Stigant
August 2, 2019 15:30 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Normal swimming 15

Garwick

Neil barron
August 2, 2019 13:00 Unidentified Large Cetacean 100 0 Feeding or foraging 20

Port St Mary Point

Sue Barron
August 2, 2019 13:10 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Normal swimming 2

East side Calf Sound off Big Head

chris burton Shona Boat trips
August 2, 2019 12:37 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 2

South Harbour Calf of Man

chris burton Shona Boat trips
August 2, 2019 13:50 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 2

Off Bay Fine Port Erin

chris burton Shona Boat trips
August 2, 2019 19:45 Bottlenose Dolphin 20 0 Fast swim or porpoising 30

Port Cornaa Beach

John
August 1, 2019 15:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 10 0 Normal swimming 60

Douglas Bay-Port Soderick

Many
August 1, 2019 13:00 Common Dolphin 10 0 Fast swim or porpoising 10

7.5 miles east of Point of Ayre

Tim Chittenden
August 1, 2019 12:00 Common Dolphin 10 0 Bow riding 10

6 miles NW off Peel

Michael Coburn
August 1, 2019 11:30 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Normal swimming 1

East side of Calf Sound

chris burton Shona Boat trips
July 31, 2019 16:20 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 3

East side Calf Sound

chris burton Shona Boat trips
July 31, 2019 16:55 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 2

South Harbour Calf of Man

chris burton Shona Boat trips
July 30, 2019 13:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 150 0 Fast swim or porpoising 15

Langness Lighthouse

Ingrid & Geoff Sugden, Cherry Clayton
July 29, 2019 17:50 Risso’s Dolphin 6 0 Normal swimming 2

SE of Chicken Rock

Dermot Shimmin

Recent basking shark sightings

Date Time # of sharks (<2m) # of sharks (2-8m) # of sharks (>8m) Total # of Sharks Behaviour Duration Location Observer
May 8, 2023 18:45 3 3 Suspected feeding 10 White beach niarbyl Matt Tyrer
May 8, 2023 20:20 1 1 Swimming 10 Peel breakwater Will holden
May 7, 2023 12:00 1 Swimming 10 Point of Ayre Liz Charter
May 6, 2023 11:10 1 Swimming 5 Port Erin bay Kathleen
August 28, 2022 10:00 3 Suspected feeding 360 Peel bay Peter Bradley, Nia Clague and many others
August 25, 2022 11:00 0 1 Tight circling 300 Niarbyl Keira & Owen, Stewart Ward
August 24, 2022 08:30 1 Suspected feeding 240 Peel Breakwater John Hills, Max Crookall
August 21, 2022 15:00 1 Suspected feeding 120 Port Erin Debbie McGregor
August 20, 2022 11:00 1 Parellel swimming 10 Peel Castle Jonathan Reilly
August 15, 2022 18:35 1 Swimming 5 Back of the Calf Joshua and Jake, Paul, Tanya and others on Shona boat
August 14, 2022 13:50 1 Suspected feeding 120 West of the Sound MWDW
August 13, 2022 19:00 1 Suspected feeding 10 Langness Laura Elizabeth
August 11, 2022 19:25 1 Suspected feeding 10 Warts Bank, Calf of Man Gemini
August 10, 2022 16:00 1 Suspected feeding 30 Orrisdale head Katie Robertson
August 10, 2022 19:40 1 Suspected feeding 20 Port Erin-Sound John Rimmer