Ferries and other commercial vessels which cross the same areas of ocean year round provide a valuable platform for conservation, research and passenger education.
Many shipping companies
have generously offered us free passage on their vessels to help
collect valuable off-shore data on the distribution and
abundance of cetaceans and seabirds and we
currently operate monthly surveys on the following routes:
- Plymouth to Roscoff (Brittany Ferries)
- Poole to Santander (Brittany Ferries Freight)
- Felixstowe to Vlaardingen (DFDS Seaways / Norfolkline Freight)
- Rosyth to Zeebrugge (DFDS Seaways)
- Swansea to Cork (Fastnet Line)
- Ilfracombe to Lundy (National Trust)
- Heysham to Warrenpoint (Seatruck Ferries)
All of the latest sightings from each of these survey routes can now be found on our Sightings pages.