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We’re delighted to announce the arrival of our brand new basking shark boat ‘ Cearban Mhor’. It’s been a few years of planning, design, discussions and convincing the bank manager to lend us (a lot) …

Here at Basking Shark Scotland, we are passionate about wildlife conservation and the protection of the incredible natural assets around us. We are lucky enough to call the Hebrides our home and our office is …

Team GB are doing well at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics today (good luck team Muirhead!) and we were inspired to write a few things about a few lesser-known facts about the curling stones! The raw stone …

The increase of plastic being introduced into our oceans has increased at an alarming rate. From plastic bottles and containers washing up on beaches to microscopic plastics entering the food chain from broken-down plastic pieces …

Basking Shark Season Reflections We’re now into September and have returned to Oban from the islands. Time flies and our Hebrides season is over for another year, it’s been such a blur! Reflecting on the season, we …

Last weekend we were fortunate enough to have a great sighting of bottlenose dolphins to the south of Oban. We have a resident pod that lives around the Inner Hebrides and we see them in …

We’ve not long returned from our winter expedition to the arctic circle in search of orca, whales, wildlife, and aurora! We’ve endured everything from ice, snow, and an actual hurricane, to +8 degrees and the …

Our 2015 Iceland swimming and diving tour was probably the best yet, the extension tour to the North put the gloss on the tour this year! We started with our classic 3-day tour around the …

Well, July 2015 was a first for us (ever!) as we were treated to a sighting of a rare Leatherback Turtle. Although the event of seeing this amazing animal with your own eyes is special, …

Gwen and Maddie had pre-booked a one-day trip to search for sharks in the Hebrides accidentally leaving their GoPro all the way home in Australia. Unfortunately, their bad luck had continued with being on one …

Basking Shark! In search of the Holy Tail! In July of this year we had the pleasure of having Ceri Levy (writer, producer and film maker), Damon Albarn (lead singer of Blur and Gorrilaz) and Marc Riley (BBC Broadcaster and to …

WOW! What an experience we’ve just had. Enjoy the visual feast of the video we put together of the trip, including amazing aerial footage by our crew member Luke Saddler Our recent three-day trip this week …