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”
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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,
The 25th Anniversary Sanctuary Tour resumed after a month long break on Friday 8th July with the Celtic Mist setting sail from Poolbeg to Howth. We would like to extend a huge thank you to Poolbeg Yacht Club and Marina, for their kindness and allowing us to stay for this month with them. During the
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
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