Recent cetacean sightings

Date Time Species Adult Juveniles Behaviour Duration Location Observer
August 28, 2022 14:30 Risso’s Dolphin 5 0 Leaping 240

Marine drive

Various
August 28, 2022 06:50 Common Dolphin 40 30 Bow riding 120

4 miles west Chicken Rock

Darren Watterson
August 27, 2022 11:50 Swordfish 1 0 Normal swimming 20

4.7 miles off Niarbyl

MWDW
August 27, 2022 19:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Feeding or foraging 120

Peel

Lots of Peel folk
August 27, 2022 13:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 100 50 Bow riding 10

10 miles off Peel

Luke Turkington and Rosa Hutchinson
August 26, 2022 13:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Feeding or foraging 20

Castletown bay

August 26, 2022 08:30 Other 2 0 Boat interaction (not riding bow) 30

Atlantic bluefin tuna-15 miles west of Peel (just outside Manx waters)

Alasdair Taylor
August 26, 2022 19:00 Risso’s Dolphin 3 0 Normal swimming 30

The Calf sound

Kyla
August 25, 2022 12:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 20 20 Bow riding 20

1 mile off Peel

August 25, 2022 12:10 Bottlenose Dolphin 15 0 Bow riding 10

1/2 a mile off Peel

Kyle Bolton
August 25, 2022 14:20 Risso’s Dolphin 10 0 Leaping 10

Langness

Emma Watterson
August 23, 2022 20:20 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Normal swimming 5

Pooilvaaish

Jan G
August 22, 2022 16:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Normal swimming 10

Peel Castle

Alex Fancis
August 14, 2022 17:10 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Feeding or foraging 30

Port Erin Bay

Tom, Freddie Icke, Daniel Corkish, Sam Clare
August 14, 2022 15:55 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Normal swimming 15

Peel Bay

Beryl Quayle

Recent basking shark sightings

Date Time # of sharks (<2m) # of sharks (2-8m) # of sharks (>8m) Total # of Sharks Behaviour Duration Location Observer
August 9, 2022 17:25 1 Suspected feeding 3 Between Jurby and the Cronk Andrea & Robert
August 9, 2022 18:30 1 1 Suspected feeding 5 Off Orrisdale Head Andrea & Robert
August 7, 2022 16:00 1 Suspected feeding 5 Ballaghennie, Point of Ayre Combine
August 4, 2022 11:30 1 1 Suspected feeding 5 Bay stacka, west of Sugarloaf Stephen Cowley
August 4, 2022 16:30 1 1 Suspected feeding 20 Between Port Erin and the Sound Phil M
August 4, 2022 21:25 1 1 Suspected feeding 10 Port Erin Bay Andy Karran
August 4, 2022 17:05 1 Suspected feeding 10 West of the Calf Stanley Conlon
August 3, 2022 15:30 1 Suspected feeding 10 Edge of Peel bay Chris Duff
August 3, 2022 20:15 1 Suspected feeding 30 Port Erin Dan James
August 3, 2022 15:00 1 Suspected feeding 30 Niarbyl Rosa
July 29, 2022 09:30 1 Swimming 5 3 miles East of Calf of Man STV Leader
July 28, 2022 20:00 1 1 Suspected feeding 10 1 mile off Peel Casey J
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