Eleven days in and we’ve reached the south coast of Portugal, where we’ve finally been able to shed the oilskins that kept us warm through the earlier part of our transit south. Great sailing weather meant that we were able to turn the engine off as we left Brittany astern, crossing the Bay of Biscay… Continue Reading
The “Final report for a survey of cetaceans in the Azores, Portugal,conducted from R/V Song of the Whale 5th April – 8th May 2012” is now available to download. Continue Reading
A Current Position page has been added to the site enabling Song of the Whale to be tracked via the Automatic Identification System (AIS) when in range of a shore station. Continue Reading
After weeks of increasingly frenzied activity, boat maintenance, construction and testing of hydrophones, R/V Song of the Whale set sail from Ipswich on Thursday 23rd May. We are currently a crew of seven, bound for Corsica: skipper Brian, engineer Mat, mate Edd, deck hand Nicola, scientists Anna, Luke and myself. My name is Conor Ryan,… Continue Reading
On 25th March 2012 SOTW and her team departed Ipswich, Suffolk to embark on a series of research, education and outreach projects during a circuit around the North Atlantic. The field work took six months to complete, stopping at six countries and covering over 10,000 nautical miles. The Azores was our first main port of… Continue Reading