Recent cetacean sightings

Date Time Species Adult Juveniles Behaviour Duration Location Observer
March 30, 2022 16:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 10 0 Normal swimming 10

Peel breakwater

Terry taxi and others
March 26, 2022 07:45 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Feeding or foraging 60

Peel bay

MWDW
March 25, 2022 10:45 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Feeding or foraging 90

Peel bay

Lisa Whear
March 25, 2022 16:00 Risso’s Dolphin 3 0 Normal swimming 10

Marine drive

Pawel G.
March 25, 2022 13:10 Unidentified Small Cetacean 25 15 Feeding or foraging 30

Laxey bay

Angela Guest
March 24, 2022 14:00 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 5

Douglas Head lighthouse

Val Galpin
March 24, 2022 09:00 Risso’s Dolphin 1 0 Normal swimming 15

Marine drive

Pawel G
March 24, 2022 14:00 Harbour Porpoise 8 0 Fast swim or porpoising 15

Langness

Pawel G
March 24, 2022 11:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 0 Normal swimming 10

Glen Maye

Not recorded
March 23, 2022 18:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Driving fish onto sandbank 30

Ballaugh Beach

Susie and Liz Brunswick
March 22, 2022 18:35 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Feeding or foraging 10

Peel castle

Nicola Dixon
March 18, 2022 10:35 Risso’s Dolphin 1 0 Normal swimming 10

Marine drive

Mike Kelly
March 14, 2022 16:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 0 12 Normal swimming 10

Mid Laxey bay

Shane Stigant
March 12, 2022 15:40 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Feeding or foraging 10

Peel bay

Alasdair Sutherland
March 11, 2022 17:45 Bottlenose Dolphin 5 0 Normal swimming 2

Ben-my-Chree

Recent basking shark sightings

Date Time # of sharks (<2m) # of sharks (2-8m) # of sharks (>8m) Total # of Sharks Behaviour Duration Location Observer
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
June 27, 2022 12:00 1 Suspected feeding 5 3 miles west of Peel Max Crookall
June 23, 2022 16:45 1 1 Suspected feeding 1 Half a mile north of Calf Sound Malcolm Stewart
June 22, 2022 18:15 1 2 Suspected feeding 20 Herring tower Langness Richard and Janice Cooil