3 results for month: 06/2018


A NEW Way to Report Your Basking Shark Sightings!

TESTING, TESTING New App developed by Zac at 'Fuzzylogic Solutions' in Douglas: This is an exciting new way to report your basking shark sightings: Please would you test the new Android and Apple Apps? The link for Apple is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ecosourcer/id1082072674?ls=1&mt=8 The link for Android is  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fuzzelogicsolutions.ecosourcer Scan the QR code on these great adverts from Julie Parys. If you experience any problems with the App please let Zak from FuzzelogicSolutions know so that he can put it right. His email is info@ecosourcer.com. Please make the subject MBSW. ...

Special TT Visitors 2018: Basking Sharks Visit Isle of Man

There's nothing quite like a hot TT week to attract lots of exotic visitors from far flung places. Those of us who watch for basking sharks expect the first basking shark school to arrive in our South Western coastal seas in late May, normally about the 20th to the 24th of May so we were getting worried.....then they arrived, just a little late, on 1st June! We have a school of at least 7 large individuals, maybe many more, it's always hard to tell as, being fish that breath with gills, they don't have to come to the surface like whales and dolphins. They have been reported feeding at the surface off Niarbyl, Bradda Head, Port Erin Bay, Bay ...

SHARKS AHOY! First Basking Shark School of 2018 Arrives.

Basking shark off Niarbyl, Port Erin and the Sound today. One is 'Fanch' an 8m male tagged by APECS off the French coast. See our Facebook page for all the latest videos, photos links etc!