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A small boat tour operator providing marine safari trips in and around Plymouth, UK.

27/08/2026

Some more blue shark shots from recent trips where we had stunning visibility here off of Plymouth. Every shark with it’s own unique personality. Some curious, some preferring to hang down in the deep. All just as beautiful! 😍🦈

📍 Plymouth Marine Safari
📸 Lauren Frape | Photography
🛥️ Taken onboard Opportunity Charters

06/08/2026

Beautiful blues 💙
It really is a privilege to spend so much time in the water with blue sharks. To think we are now almost half way through the season for this year is crazy. A huge thank you to everyone who has joined us so far 🦈

📸 Lauren Frape | Photography
📍 Plymouth Marine Safari
🛥️ Taken onboard Crusader

02/08/2026

Today marks the end of National Whale and Dolphin Watch Week 2026. This is an annual citizen science event, held by the Sea Watch Foundation which shifts focus onto reporting any cetacean sightings we have here in the UK. It’s a great chance for data collection from the general public as well as wildlife watching operators like ourselves to be able to map out a small snapshot into the world of UK cetaceans. We have definitely had some fantastic dolphin sightings towards the end of July, with Risso’s dolphins and Short-beaked common dolphins being the stars of the show down here in Plymouth. We are truly lucky to be able to call this work. 💙

📸 Lauren Frape | Photography
📍 Plymouth Marine Safari
🛥️ Taken onboard Crusader

29/07/2026

My first ever sunfish underwater - never did I imagine it would be here in Plymouth 💙 I had already had a few unsuccessful attempts this season to attempt to get a shot of one underwater, but by the time I would ever even remotely get close they would just be gone. Not to mention the amount of long swims I’ve done this month in an attempt to try, to always return back to the boat with no success 😂

Then I finally got the moment, so unexpectedly. Last week we were in the water with sharks and all of a sudden a brown looking shadow just appeared out of the corner of my right eye. It took me a split second to realise the moment was finally happening…. I was sharing the water with the world’s heaviest boniest fish. Managed to grab these shots from a magical 20 second encounter as it swam by. So cool! What a season we are having 🤩🙌

📸 Lauren Frape | Photography
📍Plymouth Marine Safari
🛥️ Taken onboard Crusader

28/07/2026

Shark week. And what a way to spend it! Days spent heading miles out into the English Channel with my favourite species of shark and getting to know new people every single day, who either share the same love for these incredible animals or are simply intrigued by them.

When our guests get the opportunity to be in the water with a shark and have it gracefully swim beside them and look into their eyes with no intentions to remotely harm them…. We see our guests truly start to care. Which then opens up conversations on how we as individuals can all do better to help protect sharks. Experiencing turns into learning, which then turns into caring. And this is why we do what we do. We may have ‘shark week’ as a dedicated time to shine a light on how much more protection is needed for sharks globally, but if we can change perceptions and inspire at least one person on every single trip that we run to care more about sharks, then we will always have a purpose.

Happy Shark Week 🦈

📸 Lauren Frape | Photography
📍 Plymouth Marine Safari
🛥️ Taken onboard Crusader

14/07/2026

🦈 Happy Shark Awareness Day! 🦈

Here in Plymouth we have more than 40 species of shark passing though our waters year round, with of course our absolute favourite species the blue shark being the most migratory species of shark in the entire world and approximately covering distances of over 10,000km annually!

Did you know, that aside from educating our guests about sharks on our blue shark snorkel trips, our team continue to also tag sharks throughout the season for databases such as NOAA and the Pat Smith database to continue giving back to science, which will hopefully in turn lead to more protection for our UK shark species.

Come and join us in October (our only remaining availability for the 2026 season) to learn more about sharks in UK waters, and have the amazing opportunity to get up close to them.

www.plymouthmarinesafari.co.uk

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🛥️ Taken onboard Crusader

13/07/2026

When you look into the eye of a shark, something changes inside of you. Being beside them in the water eye to eye, you learn respect, not fear. Every encounter is different, but always magical ✨🦈

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📍 Plymouth Marine Safari
🛥️ Taken onboard Crusader

11/07/2026

Another beautiful week with the blues! Always so magical to see how different their colour looks when the sun really shines through and reflects off of their skin. Feeling truly lucky to have been doing this for 5 years now, but yet still every day is a pinch me moment. The UK really is one of the most incredible places in the world to get up close to them🦈

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Plymouth Marine Safari
🛥️ Taken onboard Crusader

05/07/2026

Blue shark season is in full swing here in Plymouth and what an amazing last few weeks it has been since the start of the season. We have had some absolutely incredible encounters so far, with beautiful conditions here in the UK. And we’ve only just got started 😍

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Taken onboard Crusader 🛥️

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