2012

NEWS

© Emmett Johnston

Dec 19, 2012
1 min

Green Marine Checks Out

Green Marine has sent his last position report: The shark has remained close to its last position off the coast of Wales in the Irish...

Dec 19, 2012
3 min

Banba Seeks Winter Sun

‘Banba’ a female basking shark tagged in July with a satellite transmitter off Malin head, Co. Donegal has just released its transmitter...

Oct 3, 2012
2 min

Green Marine in Irish Sea

The Monster Munch project tagged shark Green Marine has checked in again this time off the coast of Wales in the Southern Irish Sea. This...

Aug 27, 2012
1 min

Bunagee in Hebrides

The tagged shark adopted by the Culdaff community on Inishowen as part of the IDP Monster Munch basking shark community awareness program...

Aug 24, 2012
1 min

2011 Tag Resighted

2011 White Tag Re-sighted oof Coll, Scotland A white tag deployed off the coats of Inishowen, Co. Donegal has been captured by dive...

Aug 21, 2012
1 min

Colm Heads to Clare

Colm doesn’t Cille the Glengad named shark from the IDP funded Monster Munch project has reported its position on August 20thoff the...

Aug 14, 2012
2 min

Tags all at Sea

After many months of determined effort all five tags from the Monster Munch Project have been deployed in Inishowen Waters. Colm doesn’t...

Aug 14, 2012
1 min

Scottish Shark Moves South

A neighbouring basking shark project based in the Hebrides on the west coast of Scotland is currently tracking a shark through Inishowen...

Aug 14, 2012
1 min

Green Marine Reports In

Green Marine is the first Monster Munch shark to report its position with other sharks reporting depth and temperature readings via...

Aug 1, 2012
1 min

Shark Time!

Finally a number of sharks have been recorded of the coast of Ireland with concentrations around the north coast. Ten separate sightings...

Aug 1, 2012
1 min

Banba's Away

Recent shark sightings reports around the Inishowen coast have resulted in two of the Monster Munch Project sharks been tagged off Malin...

Jun 5, 2012
1 min

All Aboard Surveys

May 26th - 30th 2012 With calm sea’s and perfect sunshine the majority of Inishowen’s Monster Munch community schools have successfully...

Jun 5, 2012
2 min

Night at the Museum

The Monster Munch project has delivered a five month community awareness programme using basking sharks as a medium to inform Inishowen’s...

May 7, 2012
2 min

Ready or Not

An unusually early start to the shark season in April caught Irelands basking shark research teams a little off guard. Now as the summer...

Apr 10, 2012
2 min

Blasket Bloom

Following numerous reports of large concentrations of basking sharks from County Cork to County Galway the Irish Basking Shark Study...

Mar 30, 2012
2 min

Inshore Sightings Begin

The month of March is not normally associated with high numbers of shark sightings in Irelands inshore waters but the recent high...

Mar 30, 2012
2 min

Monster Munching

The Inishowen based schools led community awareness project has successfully completed the initial shore stage and the students are now...

Mar 1, 2012
1 min

First Basking Shark Sighting of 2012

The First basking shark sighting of the year was recorded on 28 February, 350km southwest of Ireland during the Cetaceans on the Frontier...

Mar 1, 2012
8 min

Kerry Basking Shark Project Report 2011

Written by Lucy Hunt MSc. SUMMARY The Kerry Basking shark project researches basking sharks in the Kerry region studying temporal and...

Feb 17, 2012
1 min

Ted Talk Goes Global

Dr Simon Berrow's 2010 Ted Talk about the pioneering research being undertaken by the Irish basking shark research project has become...