November 8, 2025
Today after many days of stormy weather we were finally able to go out on the ocean again. There was still a bit of swell, which […]
November 5, 2025
Every ocean and every sea has its own current systems that give this body of water its special character. Currents are the horizontal and vertical transport […]
November 3, 2025
Pregnancy is something normally connected to females, but what if I tell you were is a group of animals where the males are pregnant. I speak […]
November 1, 2025
Our spotters actually work alone. There are places along the coast of Madeira that are very well suited to overlooking a large area of the sea […]
October 31, 2025
Winter is closing in and with that the wet season here on Madeira starts. This morning the weather was good enough to leave for the ocean […]
October 30, 2025
The ocean was incredibly calm today with a smooth water surface, almost like a mirror. In Portuguese, they call these conditions “mar de azeite” which translates […]
October 29, 2025
The Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops) is by far the marine mammal we know the most about. The adaptive nature of these charismatic dolphins has granted them a […]
October 28, 2025
Today on the first trip we encountered a piece of squid drifting at the surface of the ocean and it was a first glimpse of what […]
October 27, 2025
The species of the day was no doubt the Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus). This species gets their name from the early theory that there is […]