Record Breaking Plankton Trawl

Todays plankton trawl on our Whale Watch Explorer, had ' phenomenal' amounts
of plankton. The net, which normally collects about 25ml of pure plankton,
had at least 3 litres of plankton after only being trawled for 2 or 3
minutes.

What does this mean? Well, plankton sustains all life under the waves and
this was very apparent at the time of the trawl. Scores of diving gannets
and three feeding Minke Whales were around the boat at the
time of the trawl! The gannets were probably feeding on fish that were in
turn feeding on the plankton and the whales could have been feeding on both
the fish and plankton. This can only be good news for the fish, birds, whales
and of course the Whale Watchers!

Also seen today where Basking Shark, Harbour Porpoise and six Bottlenose
Dolphins that surprised us with a visit in Tobermory Bay.

It was awesome!!!!!