Recent cetacean sightings

Date Time Species Adult Juveniles Behaviour Duration Location Observer
May 14, 2021 11:40 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 3

Bay Fine Port Erin

Chris Burton Shona Boat Trips
May 14, 2021 13:30 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 4

Bay Fine Port Erin

Chris Burton Shona Boat Trips
May 13, 2021 13:45 Harbour Porpoise 11 2 Feeding or foraging 120

Carrick Bay

Neil Barron
May 13, 2021 08:30 Risso’s Dolphin 10 0 Normal swimming 30

The puddle (Calf of Man)

Mollie Kirk
May 13, 2021 17:00 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 3

Bay Fine Calf of Man

Chris Burton Shona Boat Trips
May 12, 2021 08:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Feeding or foraging 600

Peel

Many
May 7, 2021 20:45 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Feeding or foraging 20

Off Cranstal

Nigel Fairclough
May 7, 2021 13:20 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Normal swimming 10

Peel bay and Peel hill

MWDW
May 2, 2021 08:40 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Feeding or foraging 20

Peel bay

Joe Yapp, Lindsay Clark
May 2, 2021 11:45 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 0 Normal swimming 5

Gibdale point, Calf of Man

Mollie Kirk
May 2, 2021 09:50 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 2

Bay Fine Port Erin

Chris Burton Shona Boat Trips
May 2, 2021 11:30 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Normal swimming 2

Bay Fine Port Erin

Chris Burton Shona Boat Trips
May 2, 2021 14:05 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 3

East side Calf sound Calf of Man

Chris Burton Shona Boat Trips
May 2, 2021 16:15 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 3

Bay Fine Port Erin

Chris Burton Shona Boat Trips
May 2, 2021 16:45 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 3

Bay Fine Port Erin

Chris Burton Shona Boat Trips

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