Plymouth Marine Safari

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

03/02/2025

Guess who’s back?!! 🐬 Just a few days back, our skipper Ricky was out on the boat and came across quite an acrobatic pod of bottlenose dolphins, managing to get this amazing footage! For those of you who have been out with us before, you will know that we only see bottlenose dolphins a handful of times throughout the year, as the common dolphins tend to be the regular visitors on our wildlife safaris. So to see these bottlenose last week was amazing!! We will be keeping our eyes peeled for further sightings of this pod, that’s for sure. We are lucky enough to have the largest bottlenose dolphins in the world located in the UK, that being in the Moray Firth, Scotland. However the encounters we have had offshore of Plymouth over the years with certain bottlenose pods, they are still pretty large in size with specific individuals around 3-4m for sure! For the best chance of spotting fins in our Plymouth waters, please do join us on one of our half day or all day marine safaris. Get in touch via email to book your space at [email protected] 📧

02/02/2025

Don’t fancy snorkelling with sharks?! Come and join us on one of our wildlife watching & scenic coastal safari trips instead! Where you can remain on the boat and come with us in search of some fins and beautiful views 😍 2025 dates below! 👇

2025 MARINE SAFARI TRIPS:
🐬 Thursday 10th April : 8-12 / 1-5
🐬 Friday 11th April : 4.30-8.30 (sunset)
🐬 Saturday 12th April : 8-12 / 12.30-4.30
🐬 Sunday 13th April : 12.30-4.30
🐬 Wednesday 28th May : 12.30-4.30 / 5.30-9.30 (sunset)
🐬 Thursday 29th May : 8-12 / 1-5
🐬 Thursday 5th June : 8-4 ALL DAY SPECIAL
🐬 Friday 6th June : 8-12 / 1-5
🐬 Saturday 7th June : 5.30-9.30 (sunset)
🐬 Sunday 8th June : 8-12 / 12.30-4.30
🐬 Saturday 14th June : 8-12 / 12.30-4.30
🐬 Sunday 15th June : 8-12 / 12.30-4.30
🐬 Saturday 5th July : 5.30-9.30 (sunset)
🐬 Saturday 12th July : 5.30-9.30 (sunset)
🐬 Friday 18th July : 5.30-9.30 (sunset)
🐬 Thursday 24th July : 5.30-9.30 (sunset)
🐬 Wednesday 30th July : 12.30-4.30 / 5.30-9.30 (sunset)
🐬 Thursday 31st July : 8-4 ALL DAY SPECIAL / 5.15-9.15 (sunset)
🐬 Saturday 2nd August : 5.15-9.15 (sunset)
🐬 Friday 15th August : 1-5 / 5-9 (sunset)
🐬 Tuesday 19th August : 12-4 / 5-9 (sunset)
🐬 Wednesday 20th August : 8-4 ALL DAY SPECIAL
🐬 Thursday 21st August : 12-4 / 5-9 (sunset)
🐬 Friday 22nd August : 8-12 / 1-5
🐬 Saturday 23rd August : 4.45-8.45 (sunset)
🐬 Wednesday 27th August : 12-4 / 4.30-8.30 (sunset)
🐬 Thursday 28th August : 8-12 / 1-5
Plus more to be added throughout the summer subject to availability!

Most of these trips are 4 hours long, £60pp with family discount available with both daytime and sunset availability. All day special trips are 8 hours long at £100pp.

To book, please email us with your preferred date & spaces needed to [email protected] 📧

🌟 Travellers’ Choice Awards Winner for 2024 🌟 As a team we are super proud of this achievement!! All of our trips are al...
14/01/2025

🌟 Travellers’ Choice Awards Winner for 2024 🌟

As a team we are super proud of this achievement!! All of our trips are always a team effort and we all have a part to play in our small local business. We couldn’t have achieved this without every single customer that has booked to come out with us and also all of you that have then taken time out of your day to leave us a review of your experience. As we all know, UK weather is full of uncertainty… making this is a very difficult business to be in as we rely fully on the weather to be able to run our trips, as well as relying on nature to make them great!!! However if nobody booked, we wouldn’t have any trips to run at all. So we just wanted to take the time to say THANK YOU to every single one of you that makes this possible for us. It really does mean the world.

“If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life”.
💙🤙🏻

07/01/2025

Who’s excited to join us for the 🦈 this summer?!! Here’s a short unedited clip for you all of a curious blue 😍Get in touch if you would like to have a chance at experiencing this : 📧 [email protected] 📧

31/12/2024

And just like that… another season done!!! 🥹We can confidently say that 2024 was the BEST season for us in terms of wildlife.

✅ We have had the highest number of sharks by far this year on our shark snorkel trips compared to the last 3 seasons! 11 individuals on one swim was our highest amount counted.
✅ Dolphins seen on every single wildlife trip APART FROM ONE DAY (typically - the fireworks championship day!)
✅ The largest blue fin tuna bust we’ve come across in 4 years.
✅ Plus some amazing other opportunities have been had, some of which we can’t talk about until we are allowed to! 😃

We wanted to thank every single one of you that has joined us this year, or in previous years, and we would not be able to run our trips without all of you!!! We are so appreciative and grateful to you all 🙏 😭❤️

2025 dates will be released on 2nd January and the diary will then be open for bookings next year, so please keep an eye on our socials. We also have our first abroad trips running out to Egypt next year to experience the magic of snorkelling with wild spinner dolphins, plus much more fantastic marine life. Our first trip is in March 2025 with all 20 spaces SOLD OUT… our next one will be in October with dates to be confirmed extremely soon.

Any queries? Pop us an email over to [email protected] 🙌

With that, we wish you all a very happy new year and can’t wait to see all of you in 2025! We know it’s going to be a good one!!! Happy 2025 ❤️🐬

All the best, the Plymouth Marine Safari team Lauren, Connor, Ricky, Kev, Robby & Brenda 🥰 #2024

Looking for a last minute Christmas gift?!! 🎄🎅 🎁 🐬🦈 Just a reminder that we do gift vouchers for all of our different sa...
18/12/2024

Looking for a last minute Christmas gift?!! 🎄🎅 🎁 🐬🦈

Just a reminder that we do gift vouchers for all of our different safari trips. 8 hour / 4 hour marine safaris and our all day blue shark snorkel trips.

If you know someone who would love to come out with us but aren’t sure on their availability, pop us an email over to [email protected] to purchase a gift voucher and all they have to do is email us to redeem on their date of choice (subject to availability) 🦈

Just one week to go until the big day 🤩

19/08/2024

So it appears the white beaked dolphins are around Plymouth again! 🤩 Fantastic sighting Discovery Divers Plymouth Ltd 🐬

18/08/2024

The best part about our jobs is that you never know what you are going to see when you’re out on the water! This was one of those days, thanks to our lovely customer for sending over the video 🤩 Funnily enough, we were returning back to shore after a blue shark snorkel trip when we thought we had spotted a pod of commons so slowed down to have a little look. It wasn’t until all of a sudden on the opposite side of the boat we caught a glimpse of a much larger, darker, dorsal fin with markings on the animal’s back and immediately knew we had seen a Rissos dolphin! We eagerly awaited for it to surface again but had lost track of it, with the pod of commons reappearing. It wasn’t until we heard a slightly louder blow that we then realised the lone Rissos was actually swimming in amongst the pod of short beaked common dolphins and that they appeared to all be travelling together. This is something we personally have never encountered in Plymouth waters before, with these two species forming a pod! Would be interesting to know if anyone else has had any sightings like this! A fantastic moment 🤩The two species are easy to tell apart with the common dolphins being a lot smaller as well as being tri coloured with their yellowish creamy hourglass pattern running down alongside their body, not to mention their typical beaks. Rissos dolphins however are much larger with a very blunt head shape (no beak) and known for their scarrings / markings which are typically white and can be all over their body (including rake marks, caused by rough social interactions along with squid &prey te****le markings combined with the greyish/ white mottling of the skin which can be majorly enhanced as they age) 🐬

24/07/2024

Thanks to wildlife presenter and conservationist Chris Packham for voicing his views when discussing tourism on Good Morning Britain earlier today about swimming with captive dolphins.

Thousands of people visit marine parks each year – but at what cost to the dolphins? If you love dolphins (and whales) please do not add this activity to your ‘bucket list’.

https://marineconnection.org/captivity/

Happy customers - whatever the weather - that’s our goal 🤩The wildlife is out there come rain or shine. We do our best t...
18/07/2024

Happy customers - whatever the weather - that’s our goal 🤩
The wildlife is out there come rain or shine. We do our best to find it but every day is completely different. No matter the sightings, we love meeting and networking with many likeminded people onboard our trips. A huge thanks to anyone who has joined us this year so far and we look forward to the next few weeks and meeting the rest of you! 🐬💙🦈

17/07/2024

🦈 Blue sharks in Plymouth?? See for yourself!!! 🦈

We met some epic people over the weekend, but Saturday in particular we had so much footage. This is only a tiny bit of it!

We are fully booked on our blue shark snorkel trips now until Monday 5th August. Also a few spaces remaining on Friday 9th August.

You must be a confident open water swimmer and aged 14 years and upwards. £115pp 7.30am - 4/4.30pm. Drop us an email to [email protected] if you would like to join on either Monday 5th August or Friday 9th August. WE ARE FULLY BOOKED FOR ALL WEEKENDS IN 2024 FOR THE SHARK SEASON but can add you to the cancellations list!

Anyone looking for a private charter on weekdays, if there is a group of you (maximum 10) please get in touch and we can see what we can do but still very limited with dates.

Special mention and thanks goes to our skipper at the weekend Kev Lavis as although he’s not in the footage, this wouldn’t have been possible without Kev. And as always to Ricky Matthews for the boat 🤩

We are looking forward to the next few days and meeting this weeks snorkellers!! 🦈💙

#2024

Just incase you missed these… 🦈 ALL DAY BLUE SHARK SNORKEL TRIPS 2024 🦈 £115pp: 🤿 Thursday 20th June 7.30-4.30🤿 Friday 2...
18/01/2024

Just incase you missed these…
🦈 ALL DAY BLUE SHARK SNORKEL TRIPS 2024 🦈 £115pp:
🤿 Thursday 20th June 7.30-4.30
🤿 Friday 21st June 7.30-4.30
🤿 Sunday 23rd June 7.30-4.30
🤿 Friday 5th July 7.30-4.30
🤿 Saturday 6th July 7.30-4.30
🤿 Saturday 13th July 7.30-4.30
🤿 Sunday 14th July 7.30-4.30
🤿 Saturday 3rd August 7.30-4
🤿 Sunday 4th August 7.30-4
🤿 Monday 5th August 7.30-4
🤿 Friday 9th August 7.30-4

* ONLY for those who have previous snorkelling and open water experience, and are confident swimmers.

We have been inundated with emails since we put our dates out and are making our way through as best as we can! If you would like to book on to join us for a chance to snorkel with the blues this summer, drop us an email at [email protected]

In the meantime, enjoy these captures taken by our lovely customer on one of our trips last year! How amazing are these 🤩🦈

#2024

Spaces still available for this Thursday 7th September 4.30-8.30pm, £55pp!!🐬 Saturday is now fully booked with a wait li...
05/09/2023

Spaces still available for this Thursday 7th September 4.30-8.30pm, £55pp!!🐬 Saturday is now fully booked with a wait list.

Thursday is the last remaining sunset trip with availability this year, so please do email [email protected] to book your spaces. 🐬 ☀️

Fingers crossed for some great sunsets this week. Here’s one from the weekend! Photos captured by our guide Lauren Frape 🌅

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