Weekly Update May #3

Ahoy, intrepid explorers! This past week was great for dolphin sightings, and we’re excited to share the highlights with you! We are the most successful dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 43 moons (aye, 3 years and 5 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours.
This week’s sightings

. We also found and Sun Fish

For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
Tour stats

1 tours had a rating of 3 1 disastrous tour with rating of 2.. the first of the year.

  • Average distance travelled: 15 leagues (aye, 86kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 3h02
  • Average souls per tour: 7 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 2 but with the breakfast saved.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.
Looking ahead
Next week brings good seas in the mornings, until Friday the 29th when persistent strong wind will narrow our search area. Tuesday the 26th stands as the trickiest day, we may need to sail in the afternoon instead. The greatest threat this week lies not in the sea, but in underbooking

 

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Full search range 0-2

Limited search range 3-4

Waves must be under 2.5m

Weekly Update May #2

Ahoy, intrepid explorers! This past week was great for dolphin sightings, and we’re excited to share the highlights with you! We are the most successful dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 43 moons (aye, 3 years and 5 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours.
This week’s sightings
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
Tour stats

1 tours had a rating of 3.5 1 tours had a rating of 3

  • Average distance travelled: 8 leagues (aye, 46kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h14
  • Average souls per tour: 10 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 2 but with the breakfasts saved.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.
Looking ahead
Next week brings very good sea conditions until the weekend, only with Wednesday 20th showing a bit too much waves.
Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Full search range 0-2

Limited search range 3-4

Waves must be under 2.5m

Weekly Update May #1

Ahoy, intrepid explorers! This past week was great for dolphin sightings, and we’re excited to share the highlights with you! We are the most successful dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 43 moons (aye, 3 years and 4 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours.
This week’s sightings
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: and Northern Gannet.
Tour stats
  • All tours rated 3 stars on our scale ***
  • Average distance travelled: 11 leagues (aye, 61kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h27
  • Average souls per tour: 8 guests
  • Seasickness cases: zero.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 3.
Looking ahead
Next week brings bad sea conditions until Wednesday the 13th which has by far the best forecast of the week. The following days will restrict our search range significantly with little improvement during the weekend.
Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Full search range 0-2

Limited search range 3-4

Waves must be under 2.5m

Weekly Update April #4

Ahoy, intrepid explorers! This past week was great for dolphin sightings, and we’re excited to share the highlights with you! We are the most successful dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 43 moons (aye, 3 years and 4 months) with only two failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all but two of the dolphin tours.
This week’s sightings
. We also found harbour porpoise
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and Puffin.
Tour stats
2 tours had a rating of 4 2 tours had a rating of 3
  • Average distance travelled: 15 leagues (aye, 83kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 3h16
  • Average souls per tour: 10 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 3 breakfasts lost to the Seas.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.
Looking ahead
Next week brings Poor sea conditions, we might be restricted to the river and focusing our efforts in finding the river group. Thursday the 7th presents the best sea conditions of the week. Friday the 8th and onward stormy seas will prevent all attempts of going out.
Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Good Sea conditions wind 0-2

Limited tours conditions 3-4

Waves must be under 2.5m