Each year Silurian travels thousands of nautical miles to monitor whales, dolphins, porpoises and basking sharks off the Scottish West Coast. This pioneering Cetacean Research Programme, now in its 15th year, holds the largest database of its kind for UK waters and provides the evidence to support marine conservation efforts in Scottish waters. A citizen science programme at its core, every sighting in the database has been collected by a member of the public. Volunteers join our team on board to work alongside the HWDT crew as marine mammal field biologists. Full training in visual and acoustic data collection is provided by the excellent crew on board during these live-aboard monitoring expeditions. Join us on board as a citizen scientist and help protect marine wildlife in the Heb