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The final leg of the Celtic Mist Sanctuary Tour promised fantastic coastal scenery, sheltered bays and inlets, beautiful towns and ….. whales ! It was also a personal test as skipper Finbarr O’Connell and Ollie Switzer were joined by the Berrow family, Rónán, Cuan and Muireann and myself and Frances. Seven on a boat for
Once again, the Mullet Peninsula in Co. Mayo lives up to it's reputation as a 'hotspot' for mass live strandings of common dolphins in Ireland. Aoife Foley, a member of IWDG and the Broadhaven Bay Marine Mammal Monitoring Program (MaREI/UCC) takes up the story: "On Saturday 23rd July 2016, the call was raised that there
Common dolphin ©John Power Sightings of common dolphins continued as the Celtic Explorer completed its track lines across the Celtic sea. By the 22nd and 23rd of July up to fourteen sightings of small groups had occurred while behaviours such as theatrical leaps, bow riding and feeding could be observed. When the call of “bottlenose”
Leg 6 of the Celtic Mist’s journey around Ireland took off from Arklow on July the 18th in some light southerly winds and fairly heavy fog. Once we were fuelled up and ready to go we left the garden of Ireland in the mid morning with high hopes for the week ahead. Only a couple
A new species of beaked whale has just been described from the Pacific Ocean. A caracass floated ashore in June of 2014, in the Pribilof Islands community of St. George, in the middle of Alaska's Bering Sea. A biology teacher spotted the carcass half-buried in sand on a desolate windswept beach and alerted a former fur
The Western European shelf edge pelagic acoustic survey 2016 provided me with an opportunity that I couldn’t turn down, to work aboard the R.V. Celtic Explorer. Having kept an eye on this ship over the past few years through the form of blog posts and updates from the likes of cetaceans on the frontier or
Tom McSweeney talks to IWDG Director and skipper of Celtic Mist about the 25th Anniversary Sanctuary Tour in Poolbeg Sailing Club in Dublin. Wide ranging discussion on the vessel, whale and dolphins in Ireland and IWDG mission to raise awareness of whales and dolphins in Ireland. Please go to: http://afloat.ie/blogs/island-nation/item/33074-whale-of-a-thought-at-poolbeg-yacht-boat-club
IWDG are deeply concerned with the new Heritage Council recently appointed by Minister Humphries. The new members of the board (listed below) does not include one member with expertise in wildlife. This is completely unacceptable for a state body whose remit under the Heritage Act, 1995 [pdf 96kb] is to provide policy advice on all
Information recorded on the sightings and strandings databases can be used in short- (is there an issue now that needs to be raised?), medium- (end of year figues and reports to agencies, what species? numbers? etc) and long-term (compare year to year, trends, unusual mortality events). If we look at minke whale strandings in 2016,