Species (Sp) Key: CDO - Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) STDO - Striped Dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) WSDO - Atlantic White Sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) UNDO - Unidentified Dolphin BLWH - Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) KIWH - Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) MIWH - Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) PIWH - Pilot Whale (Globicephala melaena) SPWH - Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus or Physeter catadon) HAPO - Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) GRSL - Gray Seal (Halichoerus grypus) UNSW - Unidentified Whale

Date	On/off effort V-vis; A-acstc	Time (UTC)	Lat (N)	Long (W)	Depth (f)	Temp (F)	Sea State	Clouds (%)	Vis. (mi)	Hdg (mag)	Obsvrs	Sp.	#	Dist and brg	Comments	Photo/ video?
6/24/00	Off	923	5254.2	945.9	30	55.0	1	80	>5	29	WTM/MJM	MIWH	1	200m	Minke whale S of Aran Islands
6/25/00	Off	1045	5312.2	951.0	85	57.0	1	10	>5	310	HTCM	GRSL	1
6/27/00	Off	733	5418.7	1003.5	80	55.0	1	10	>5	38	HTCM	GRSL	1	150	Off Eris Head
6/27/00	Off	753			80	55.0	1	20	>5	38	HTCM	GRSL	1
6/27/00	Off	805			80	55.0	1	20	>5	38	HTCM	GRSL	1
6/27/00	Off	816			80	55.0	1	20	>5	38	HTCM	GRSL	1
6/27/00	Off	1220	5446.4	935.6	80	57.0	1	20	>5	38	MJM	UNDO	1
6/23/00	Off	804	5637.2	743.8	90	54.0	1.0	100	>5	42.0	MJM	KIWH	3	300yrd.090		N
		821	5638.9	747.5	70	54.0	1.0	100	>5	42	MJM	GRSL	1	350 090		N
7/1/00	On-V	1000	5654.8	734.3	16	52.0	1.0	90	>5	337	HTCM				Headed ro St. Kilda
		2800	5736.0	813.4	arrived S. Kilda
7/3/00	on-V	915	5750.1	833.5	70	51.0	2.0	100	3.0	320.0	HTCM/OJM				Foggy. NW from St. Kilda
	V/A	948-950	5758.7	846.3		52.0	2.0	100	3.0	320.0	HTCM				Recorded 2' nothing heard
	V/A	1230	5809.6	902.0							HTCM				Hearing Sp.Wh.	N
	V/A	1336	5806.2	905.1	220	52.0	3.0	100	>5	150	HTCM
	V/A	1615	5750.7	835.8	100	52.0	3.0	100	>5
7/6/00	on-V	820	5747.6	832.7	70	51.0	1.0	100	>5	180	HTCM	UNSE	1	50m90	Off Dun, St. Kilda	N
	V	840	5747.4	832.2	70	51.0	1.0	100	>5	280	HTCM				Change course to 1st leg. Lots of Puffins	1
	V	1045	5747.0	844.0	130	51.0	1.0	100	>5	90	HTCM				Return to St Kilda. Alternator problems.
	V	1240	5574.0	832.2	70	51.0	1.0	100	>5	90	HTCM				Off watch
7/700	on-V	855	5747.0	833.5	60	51.0	1.0	100	>5	290	HTCM				W. along side of St. Kilda
	VA	930	5748.9	836.6	90	51.0	1.0	100	>5	260	HTCM/OJM				Stbd. Tack
	VA	1106	5745.6	857.7	130	53.0	1.0	100	>5	350	HTCM/OJM				Port tack hear porpoise
	VA	1150	5749.2	854.9	130	53.0	1.0	100	>5	30	HTCM/OJM				Sp. Wh. Clicks. Dolphin whistles
	off A	1300	5755.9	857.0	140	53.0	1.0	100	>5	220	HTCM/OJM				Tack
	V	1420	575.6	905.6	140	54.0	1.0	100	>5	85	HTCM/OJM				to Soay
	V	1645	5747.0	833.0	60	51.0	1.0	100	>5	85	HTCM/OJM				off Dun, St. Kilda
7/8/00	V	950	5748.7	831.2	50	52.0	1.0	100	>5	80.0					Motoring to Loch Resort
	Voff	1533	5745.5	713.7	0	53.0	1.0	100	2.0	30.0					Nothing to Loch Resort
7/12/00		1655	5702.9	702.1	30	52.0	1.0	100	3	150		HAPO	1	50m90	to Loch Maddy
7/21/00		1330		553.8	30	55.0	0.0	0	>5	46		HAPO	1	300m90	S. of Sleat
7/22/00	off	1121	5720.2	546.1	300	57.0	1.0	5	>5	255	MJM	HAPO	1	100mport	Loch Carron
7/23/00	off	1730	5714.0	538.5	Ashore	58.0	1.0	5	>5	180	MJM	GRSL	10		Kyle Akin
7/24/00	off	940	5700.0	552.0	40	55.0	1	5	>5	240	MJM	HAPO	1	80m	off Mallaig
7/24/00	off	1546	5635.0	558.0	70m	54.0	2	5	>5	155	MJM	HAPO	1	10 10m	Sound of Mull
8/2/00	off	1203	5639.6	603.1	50	55.0	1	100	>5	260	HTCM	HAPO	2	50m 90 port	Sound of Mull
8/7/00	off	645	5530.2	604.0	50	55.0	1	100	3	155	MJM/HTCM	MIWH	1	30mport	S. of Islay
8/18/00	off	1134	5449.4	919.1	80	59.0	1	30	>5	242	HTCM	MIWH	2	200mport	N. of Donegal Bay
8/19/00	off	1921	5220.0	1337.3	600	60.0	2	80	>5	236	OJM	CDO	11	99910m	Bowriding
8/19/00	off	2020	5213.7	1347.7	600	60.0	2	80	>5	230	OJM	CDO	20	99910m	4calves bowriding
8/20/00	off	1315	5036.3	1617.2	2000	60.0	2	20	>5	236	HTCM	SPWH	1	10m120	pooped
8/21/00	off	1515	4856.8	1918.8	2000m	62.0	2	80	>5	227	WTM	UNKDO	2	100m999
8/24/00	off	1700	4119.7	2634.1	2000	70.1	0	100	>5	223	MJM	PIWH	c. 50		Dispersed

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