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Marine biologist, Dr of sunfishes, filmmaker, optimist, beach comber. Documentary director @Swimming_head & scientific advisor @BaskingIrish 🐡🐟🐠

Joined March 2014
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It’s #SharkWeek! Earlier this year we had a big encounter while filming with @Irishwildlife! Filmed by pole cam following @BaskingIrish Code of Conduct. Huge thanks to @GraceMarie_Carr & skipper Dave Edwards! #SciComm #Conservation #Explore
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To celebrate our local sharks I’m chatting with @bbcradioulster at 12.30 today! All about sharks, filming & the International Basking Shark Conference! Held by our lovely group @BaskingIrish in August, check out the IBSG website or we will be filming highlights to share!
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You're invited 🥰🌊🌱 We're hosting a film screening, a community workshop & a field trip to a #seagrass bed with @coastwatch_ire Where: Kilmore Quay, Co. #Wexford When: Friday 16 May 2025 Registration: tinyurl.com/FairSeasKilmoreQ… #FairSeas #BiodiversityWeek2025
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Incredible new research on whale song! We’re delighted to share Cathy’s PhD research in a new short video 🐳🎶🎥
Cathy Gibson from @AFBI_NI Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystems Branch shares why her @daera_ni funded PhD studying humpback whale song is so important for marine conservation. View the full video from the following link: bit.ly/44S1jJo 🦈 #AFBIScience @swimming_head
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And it’s a wrap!🎬 We’ve been filming a new doc on bottom trawling with @GraceMarie_Carr from @Irishwildlife under the blazing Irish sun these last two weeks! So many incredible stories & local insights, coming soon…
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The Crab Bay Puffin Hide is pretty special this year. We have three pairs currently incubating behind the one-way glass, offering magical views of egg turning, nest tidying, incubation changeovers and sleeping Puffins.
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This is the kind of morning commute I don’t mind. Basking shark traffic jam!
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Delighted our film Bone Shark Island is an award ✨WINNER✨ We won the environmental category at Houston Underwater Film Festival! Thanks to Kenix & @SHnationaltrust for their research, @m_fletcher8 for gorgeous extra footage & @TheFSBI for their generous support of this film.
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The Irish coastline is shaped by the wild waves of the Celtic Sea🌊 Check out our NEW award-winning short film 'Fair Seas: The Celtic Sea' with @FairSeasIreland! Trailer youtu.be/PMID5cVczvc & screening across Ireland 🎣🐳🤿
Our new short film has already been selected for three film festivals and won two awards 😍🌊 Check out the trailer and share it with anyone you know along the shores of the Celtic Sea: youtu.be/PMID5cVczvc #FairSeas @swimming_head
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A spectacular 'blizzard' of King and Common Eiders taking flight over the Barents Sea off the Varanger peninsula, Arctic Norway. An incredible sight!
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The most detailed map yet of Antarctica’s hidden landscape has been unveiled. Bedmap3 reveals towering mountains, deep canyons & the thickest ice ever recorded - providing a vital tool to study how the continent may respond to climate change. scar.org/scar-news/groups-ex…
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Excited to share our short film Bone Shark Island, made with @SHnationaltrust, has been selected for ✨Houston Underwater Film Festival✨ & is now showing on Sure TV!📺 Thanks to Kenix, Neil & @m_fletcher8, filming generously funded by @TheFSBI
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What a wonderful start to the year! St Helena you’ve been incredible. Great to be filming again with @SHnationaltrust and @sthelenatourism 🌅
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Still buzzing from our epic encounter with #Orcas this week. Here's bull '34' from the Northern Isles Community '27s' pod ploughing through Atlantic swells off the west Mainland of Shetland on Friday. 🖤🤍
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ORCAS... The icing on the cake of what has been an incredible week. This afternoon we followed the '64s' Orcas from land for a couple of hours as they hunted in Bressay Sound, Shetland. Amazing views with belly rolls, spy hops and tail lobs. 🖤🤍
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Wonderful to film these Harbour Porpoise (known here in Shetland as 'Neesicks') in glass-calm conditions off the east coast this week before #StormEowyn arrived. It's not very often you get to see their subtle 'puffy' blows as they surface. @whalesorg @Seasaver @mcsuk @SeaWatchersUK @NatureScot @Mammal_Society @kazcustard @NLFerries @marcrileydj @Britnatureguide @ShetlandWild
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First humpback whale of the 2025 season today! @CornwallLive @BBCCornwall @ILoveCornwallUK
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So long 2024! We’ve been very fortunate this year, filming docs around the world, screening at festivals & gaining a new team member in little Bear, so much to be thankful for. Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year xx
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What a week! Filming in stunning Northern Ireland, exploring fantastic conservation projects with @UlsterWildlife @ArmstoryTrust @AFBI_NI @NIMTF ⚓️🐠🦭 A brilliant way to end the year, full of optimism! Excited to dive into the edit & more travels coming soon in St Helena🙌🏝️☀️
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