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Our spring expedition was a huge success with 16 beaches cleaned around Oban and Isle of Kerrera coastline. Following our huge expedition beach clean last year on the Isle of Mull (see blog from that …

We’re proud to share the news of the publication of our first collaborative scientific paper. We have a long-standing partnership between Dr Mauvis Gore & Dr Rupert Ormond of Marine Conservation International and Heriot-Watt University for …

Juvenile Basking Shark We have some really exciting news in that one of our recent tours spotted our first-ever sighting of a juvenile basking shark. We believe this could be one of the only records …

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, …