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Welfare advice issued to keep ‘social dolphin’ safe in Devon

Marine conservation charities British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), Marine Connection and The Seal Project are advising people to act with caution around a lone bottlenose dolphin which has turned up in the Torbay area of Devon, UK.  The dolphin is known as a ‘social solitary’ dolphin. In this highly unusual circumstance, an individual chooses […]

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Leisure Marine

British Marine encourages French sailors to explore Devon

British Marine South West has launched Sail la Manche – an online resource designed to give French sailing visitors information on tourist attractions and facilities in Devon. The idea is that Sail la Manche will help the region to be fully ‘explored and enjoyed’.  Part of what makes Sail la Manche unique is the 3D […]

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Maritime, Commercial & Defence

£15m funding bid for Appledore Clean Maritime Innovation Centre

Torridge Councillors have voted to support a funding bid, seeking approximately £15m to create the Appledore Clean Maritime Innovation Centre. This project will seek to place northern Devon at the core of maritime developments in the net zero age. The centre, at Middle Dock, a site which neighbours the Harland & Wolff shipyard, will feature […]

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Leisure Marine

Devon girl to become Britain’s youngest round-Britain sailing success

Katie McCabe, 14, has finished sailing around Great Britain and is hoping her journey will make her officially the youngest person to have done so. The current youngest person to sail solo around Britain is Timothy Long, from Aylesbury, who sailed around Britain last year, aged 15, and will have held the record for under […]