Recent cetacean sightings

Date Time Species Adult Juveniles Behaviour Duration Location Observer
October 26, 2017 13:30 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Normal swimming 5

Castletown bay

Martin Lambden
October 26, 2017 16:30 Minke Whale 1 0 Normal swimming 10

The Arches, Marine drive

Ali Clarke
October 26, 2017 17:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 5 0 Leaping 30

Langness

Don Brown
October 22, 2017 11:00 Unidentified Large Cetacean 1 0 Normal swimming 1

1/4 of a mile south east of the chasms

Morgan Guy
October 20, 2017 15:00 Minke Whale 1 0 Normal swimming 5

Langness

Janice Reynolds
October 14, 2017 11:25 Minke Whale 2 0 Normal swimming 15

The Arches, Marine drive

Colin Gundry
October 8, 2017 10:45 Minke Whale 1 0 Not recorded 10

Douglas bay

Stephen Beckley
October 8, 2017 13:05 Minke Whale 4 1 Feeding or foraging 200

Marine drive. From Arches to pigeon stream

Bill & Sue Whittaker, Carol Woodall
October 8, 2017 14:45 Common Dolphin 10 0 Feeding or foraging 30

Marine Drive. Sth of Arches.

Carol Woodall & Sue Whittaker
October 8, 2017 15:10 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Feeding or foraging 20

Marine Drive, Arches

Carol Woodall & Sue Whittaker
October 7, 2017 17:25 Unidentified Small Cetacean 2 0 Normal swimming 1

Pigeon Stream, Marine Drive

Bill Whittaker
October 7, 2017 18:15 Minke Whale 1 0 Feeding or foraging 20

Marine Drive, off The Arches

Carol Woodall, Sue Whittaker.
September 30, 2017 14:20 Minke Whale 2 0 Feeding or foraging 240

Onchan

Louise Stewart, Paul Apperley, Essie Montgomary
September 28, 2017 09:10 Minke Whale 1 0 Feeding or foraging 20

Marine Drive

Andrew Wedgwood Mayne
September 28, 2017 09:40 Minke Whale 1 0 Normal swimming 15

About 600m from the coast of King Edward Bay

Zoe Bennett

Recent basking shark sightings

Date Time # of sharks (<2m) # of sharks (2-8m) # of sharks (>8m) Total # of Sharks Behaviour Duration Location Observer
June 16, 2022 12:10 1 Suspected feeding 20 Douglas head Ian Wilcock
June 15, 2022 13:45 Suspected feeding 30 Port Soderick Jordan Palfreman
June 15, 2022 15:15 1 Suspected feeding 20 West of Calf of Man Quentin De Backer
June 15, 2022 15:15 1 Suspected feeding 5 Port Erin bay Not recorded
June 15, 2022 12:10 3 Tight circling 20 6 miles south Sugar loaf Kirrie jenkins, Doug Patrick
June 15, 2022 11:05 1 Suspected feeding 35 Douglas head Ian Wilcock
June 14, 2022 21:30 2 Suspected feeding 35 Marine drive Port Soderick end Kevin Sharpe
June 13, 2022 19:55 1 Tight circling 15 Fort Island David Bellamy & Robert Fisher
June 12, 2022 10:40 1 Suspected feeding 120 Peel headlands-breakwater John Baker, Alastair Sutherland, Jon Corlett, Elli Gawne, Julie Howarth
June 11, 2022 15:15 1 Suspected feeding 160 Gansey bay Tim, Richard Corlett
June 9, 2022 10:57 1 Suspected feeding 10 Jurby Lizzie Coote
June 7, 2022 18:00 1 Suspected feeding 10 Marine drive MWDW
June 6, 2022 16:40 1 Swimming 5 5m off Port Erin Faye Devlin
June 3, 2022 11:05 1 Swimming 1 Half a mile west of Spanish Head Malcolm Stewart
June 2, 2022 15:20 1 Swimming 1 Off Jurby head Malcolm Stewart