Recent cetacean sightings

Date Time Species Adult Juveniles Behaviour Duration Location Observer
April 7, 2018 15:20 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Logging on surface 5

Rue Point

Nick Pinder
April 7, 2018 12:00 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Normal swimming 5

Langness

Kath Giles
April 7, 2018 14:00 Harbour Porpoise 20 0 Feeding or foraging 30

Calf Lighthouses

Calf wardens
April 6, 2018 13:00 Harbour Porpoise 25 0 Feeding or foraging 15

Calf Lighthouses

Calf Wardens
April 4, 2018 13:00 Unidentified Small Cetacean 3 0 Feeding or foraging 5

Langness by the lighthouse

Graham Sutton
March 29, 2018 07:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 6 0 Not recorded 15

Ramsey bay

Unknown
March 27, 2018 12:28 Harbour Porpoise 1 Feeding or foraging 5

S of Sound

Sue & Bill Whittaker
March 27, 2018 10:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 30 Fast swim or porpoising 90

Marine drive

Mike Radcliffe, Talitha Jane
March 26, 2018 17:15 Unidentified Small Cetacean 4 0 Fast swim or porpoising 10

Marine drive

Rachel and Alex Myers, Tom Kelly
March 24, 2018 12:05 Harbour Porpoise 2 0 Feeding or foraging 5

Scarlett trail

Carol Woodall & Sue Whittaker
March 24, 2018 18:15 Harbour Porpoise 4 0 Feeding or foraging 5

Nort of the Calf

Carol Woodall, Sue & Bill
March 24, 2018 14:50 Risso’s Dolphin 8 0 Normal swimming 10

East of the Calf

MWDW, Neil Barron
March 22, 2018 11:35 Harbour Porpoise 3 0 Normal swimming 10

Port Soderick

Neil Barron
March 11, 2018 10:45 Harbour Porpoise 3 0 Feeding or foraging 30

Marine drive

Neil Barron
March 9, 2018 10:30 Harbour Porpoise 3 1 Feeding or foraging 120

Off Smeale beach

Jerry Jones

Recent basking shark sightings

Date Time # of sharks (<2m) # of sharks (2-8m) # of sharks (>8m) Total # of Sharks Behaviour Duration Location Observer
August 11, 2026 10:30 1 1 Breaching 35 100m off Peel Hill Ava & Ian Judd, Jo Stainthorop
August 9, 2026 15:35 1 1 Suspected feeding 15 Port Erin bay (adjacent to lifeboat station) Gordon Crowe
August 9, 2026 13:55 1 1 Breaching 5 South Harbour, Calf of Man Sam Bowers
August 9, 2026 10:50 1 0 1 Suspected feeding 8 Peel hill Jo Stainthorp
August 8, 2026 12:55 1 1 Suspected feeding 25 Just south of Peel Castle Jan Ozyer
August 6, 2026 11:40 1 1 Suspected feeding 10 Off Port Erin breakwater Siobhan Meredith
August 6, 2026 16:00 1 0 2 Suspected feeding 500 Port Erin Jo Lewy, Aquabike IOM, Geoff Clarker & others
August 6, 2026 18:00 3 3 Suspected feeding 30 Off Fleshwick Matthew Ripley
August 5, 2026 15:00 1 1 Suspected feeding 10 East of the Sound Marcus Perrin
August 2, 2026 15:29 1 1 Swimming 10 Port St Mary harbour Thomas boat trips isle of man
August 2, 2026 10:45 1 1 Suspected feeding 5 1km offshore from Cronk ny Arrey Laa John Barker
August 2, 2026 08:25 1 1 Suspected feeding 15 Niarbyl Jennie Campbell
August 2, 2026 15:00 1 1 Suspected feeding 40 Santon gorge Rachel Berry, Tina Teare
August 2, 2026 13:05 2 2 Swimming 45 Port Grenaugh Becky Kent
August 2, 2026 17:03 0 1 Swimming 20 Chicken lighthouse Thomas boat trips isle of man