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The first ones on this page are from Matt Green during our May 2024 trip. Many sounds - the 'popping' at Douglas Bay for example - remain unidentified, but we continue to work with our partners in the Isle of Man Government, Manx Wildlife Trust, Manx Heritage and Manx Blue Carbon Project to catalogue the sounds around the coast! Further down you can hear sounds from kayaks we sailed around Derby Fort, clips from our make-your-own-hydrophone workshop at House of Manannan and sounds from the Festival of the Sea.


Douglas, May 24, Rock pool, 'pops' (MG)

Calf of Man, May 2024, Machine scanning bed for future windfarms? (MG)

Scarlett, May 24, Scrunching munching sound in rock pool (MG)

Port St Mary, May 24, More extraordinary sounding limpets (MG)

Saint Michael's Isle, July 24, HT reads from the Marine Nature Reserve leaflet about Kelp seaweeds (slight wind) (AD)

Point of Ayre, July 2024, The sound of pebbles and waves at the north-eastern shore, by the foghorn (AD)

House of Manannan (Peel), July 24, Noisy bathbomb experiments from the hydrophone workshop! (GROUP)

Hango Hill, July 24, HT reading Lowry extract at former execution site, with seagulls, Castletown (AD)

Saint Michael's Isle, July 24, HT reads from the Marine Nature Reserve leaflet about seals, with seals recorded from kayaks (AD/FM/KN)

House of Manannan (Peel), July 2024, Blowing bubbles with bathbombs recorded with newly-made hydrophones (GROUP)

Saint Michael's Isle, July 24, HT reads from the Marine Nature Reserve leaflet about intertidal muds, caves and eelgrass (AD)

House of Manannan (Peel), July 2024, More noisy bathbombs! (GROUP)

Saint Michael's Isle, July 24, The sound of kayaking over the seagrass area, with distant fishing boat (LS)

Saint Michael's Isle, July 24, The sound of seals, above seagrass, recorded from hydrophone under a kayak (FM/KN)

Saint Michael's Isle, July 24, The full 27-minute kayak recording, with seals and strange gurgling - part 1 (LKW)

Saint Michael's Isle, July 24, The full 27-minute kayak recording, with seals and strange gurgling - part 2 (LKW)

Saint Michael's Isle, July 24, A soft seal sound, a whimper (LKW)

Saint Michael's Isle, July 24, A curious 'digesting' sound (seals?) (LKW)

Point of Ayre, July 2024, AD reads details of the Marine Nature Reserve around the northern coast

Saint Michael's Isle, July 24, HT reads from the Marine Nature Reserve leaflet - recorded from under the water! (LKW)

Fleshwick, July 24, Single Shore (LKW)

Port Erin, July 24, Highly crunchy scrunchy seaweed (LKW)

Niarbyl, July 2024, Very quiet rockpool sounds, with kids in background (LKW)

Niarbyl, July 24, Loud hungry limpets (LKW)

Festival of the Sea, Port Erin, July 24, A tank of edible crabs, blue lobster and spiny starfish - claws scuttling and scuffling (AD)

Festival of the Sea, Port Erin, July 24, Lobsters and crabs playfully scrapping (AD)

Festival of the Sea, Port Erin, July 24, Noisier lobsters moving around (AD)

Festival of the Sea, Port Erin, July 24, Trying to record a scallop up close (hearing almost nothing) (AD)

Laxey, August 2024, Information about the Iceland Clam recorded in Laxey (MH)

Laxey, August 2024, Information about the Laxey River Fish recorded in Laxey (MH)

Laxey, August 2024, Underwater recording at the Harbour Wall (MH)

Laxey, August 2024, Underwater recording at the Harbour Wall, from the river side (MH)

Point of Ayre, August 2024, Motorbikes heard around the beach (MH)

Point of Ayre, August 2024, Motorbikes on beach, recorded from the foghorn (MH)

West Coast MNR, August 2024, Information about Rocky Reefs (MH)

West Coast MNR, August 2024, Information about Basking Sharks (MH)

Laxey, August 2024, Recording of small boat recorded underwater from Harbour Wall (MH)

Laxey, August 2024, Recording from river side of Harbour Wall (MH)

Peel, August 2024, Rock pool with small fish moving about (HD-L)

Ramsey, August 2024, Bats recorded at Mooragh Park - live transmission (Soundcamp)

Manannan, August 2024, Recording at sea, bow to stern (Soundcamp)

Manannan, August 2024, Extraction fan - live transmission (Soundcamp)

Manannan, August 2024, Public announcement - live transmission (Soundcamp)

Manannan, August 2024, Boarding - live transmission (Soundcamp)


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