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Cardigan Bay Monitoring takes to the Air

Apr 05, 2019

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Cardigan Bay Monitoring takes to the Air In recent years, the Sea Watch team have flown a drone opportunistically from our survey vessel in Cardigan Bay, West Wales. The flights were successful and, in 2019, funded by the John Spedan Lewis Foundation, we shall be testing the use of a

The Cardigan Bay dolphins are on Countryfile this month!

Jan 18, 2019

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This summer, the Sea Watch Foundation was joined by some very special guests for one of our summer surveys; 5x paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft and the BBC Countryfile crew visited New Quay and went on survey with our team to learn more about our resident population of bottlenose d

What causes whale mass strandings?

Feb 28, 2017

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Around 600 pilot whales recently became stranded on a New Zealand beach, around 400 of which died before volunteers could refloat them back into the sea. Sadly, this kind of mass whale stranding has occurred since human records began, and happens somewhere in the world on a regular ba

Looking for experience & up for a challenge?

Dec 21, 2016

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Every year at Sea Watch, we recruit a group of interns, including an Education and Outreach Assistant and a Research Assistant/Intern Coordinator. Our hardworking interns are indispensable for the work that we do and meeting and getting to know them all at the start of every period is

A Day on Welsh waters

Feb 23, 2015

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With numerous bottlenose dolphin sightings along the Welsh Coast this February, the Welsh Sea Watchers team took to the sea again with the support of the charity Sea Changers, and a number of eager volunteers. The aim? To photograph and identify the dolphins braving Wales’ cold

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Cardigan Bay Monitoring takes to the Air

The Cardigan Bay dolphins are on Countryfile this month!

What causes whale mass strandings?

Looking for experience & up for a challenge?

A Day on Welsh waters

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