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Our 'Onboard Silurian' blog is written by crew and volunteers onboard Silurian to update you on their latest sightings and trip reports. The education team also use the blog during education trips to publish quotes from students and teachers onboard the floating classroom.
News Archive - May 2017
Third Standard Survey 2017 Completed
25/05/2017
Update on our recent monitoring expedition, including some stinky minke action and an iridescent plankton party.
Offshore Survey Highlights Biodiversity
13/05/2017
HWDTs recent monitoring expedition made passage to Stanton Banks (a remote rocky reef), highlighting the biodiveristy present
Second Standard Survey 2017 Completed
08/05/2017
Update on our most recent monitoring expedition, which included a passage to Stanton Banks and recorded the first basking shark!
Monitoring Expedition FULL
06/05/2017
Only three berths available to join us aboard during in the 2017 field season!!
Excellent education trip to Skye!
04/05/2017
Hundreds of people join HWDT on Silurian to learn more about surveying for cetaceans.
'Shocking' levels of PCB chemicals in UK killer whale Lulu
02/05/2017
Scottish killer whale contained one of the highest concentrations of PCB pollutants ever recorded in marine mammals