After a brief spell of downtime, Celtic Mist is setting sail once more to start the final legs of the Sanctuary Tour. She will be departing from Poolbeg Yacht Club in Dublin tomorrow afternoon with a full crew of IWDG members, and from there will make her way to Drogheda to attend the Irish Maritime
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Report II, 30/06/2016 There has been a huge amount of interest in this killer whale sighting record in recent days, with a huge reach on social media. At time of writing almost 114,000 have read this story via the IWDG Facebook page; this has no doubt been driven by the really strong images secured on
The final showing of the new documentary about the IWDG Expedition to Cape Verde in September 2014 in search of a new breeding grounds for humpback whales will shown at the library in Aras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Co Mayo on 23 June at 6pm with everybody invited. This will be a special event with film
All–Ireland Whale Watch Day, “Whale-Watch Ireland 2016”…a date for the diary Whale Watch Ireland 2016, Saturday 27th August, between 2:00 – 5:00pm The early arrival of humpback whales and other species of whales and dolphins along the Irish coast seems like a good omen for this years All Island Whale Watch day which will be
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The 3rd leg of the Celtic Mist’s grand tour was taking it from Killybegs to Ballycastle providing an opportunity to look at cetacean activity over the Tuns Bank. This area has been on local (northern) IWDG cetacean watchers ‘to do’ list for some time. There is evidence, gathered some time ago as part of a
Leg Four of the sanctuary cruise commenced in Rathlin on Monday the 30th of May after the crew was changed over on the previous day. The weather conditions were largely calm with a chill in the air and sea fog obscuring our view of the nearby beach. We were awoken by the haunting fog horn
The Celtic Mist was diverted from its southward cruise plan down the East coast of Northern Ireland following the confirmed sighting report of an immature bowhead whale off of Carlingford Lough on Sunday the 29th of May. The vessel departed Carrickfergus Marina in Belfast Lough at approximately 4:30am on Tuesday the 31st of May
Report II, June 1st 2016 IWDG's yacht the Celtic Mist diverted to the Carlingford Lough area yesterday May 31st and after a search of the immediate area did not locate the bowhead whale. She then undertook a series of line transects covering both inshore and offshore waters in the area which also produced no sightings.