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Filtering grab samples for creatures What's new 27th January 2012 Web site status Web systems working normally. 6th June 2011 Dolphins During a recent survey of Liverpool Bay a pod of at least 20 Bottlenose dolphins were spotted between Hilbre Island and the entrance to the Mersey. Time seen 06:50 Monday 6th June 2011 » View movie of the encounter Requires Quicktime to be installed on your computer. 27th January 2011 FerryBox The FerryBox fitted to one of the Irish Sea ferries has been taken out of operation due to DFDS Seaways transferring the ship to another route. » Find out more 20th October 2010 Glider experiment Glider-175 (Rooney) has just been successfully tested off the coast of North Wales. Rooney was fitted with a Rockland microRider turbulence probe. » Find out more View past news items | Check status for problems Sat 28 Jan 7:18 UTC 2012 » About us About the Irish Sea Observatory, future plans, participants, cruise plan, outputs, register for data, Steering Group information. » Monitoring What we are monitoring? Get the latest meteorology, wave heights, currents, tidal sea levels, sea water temperature, salinity, turbidity chlorophyll. Some in real-time others in delayed mode. » Modelling View forecasts for the Irish Sea. Outputs from the Ocean shelf, Irish Sea, Liverpool Bay models, including map based Irish Sea meteorological forecasts. » MapViewer Get information also contained within the monitoring and modelling parts of the website using a map based system. » Status Tells you about problems with the real-time data and model forecasts, on-going maintenance and scheduled down times.

Real-time latest Liverpool Bar Light 2012/01/28 05:59 Sea temp 6.2 degC » Find out more WaveNet Buoy 2012/01/28 05:30:00 Wave height .60 m Hilbre Island Hilbre Island Met Station 2012/01/28 07:10 Add one hour for BST Last hour wind average was 4 knots Force 1 E Air Tem 4.8 degC Date/time (GMT) Wind speed (knots) 01/28 07:10   4 E 01/28 07:00   4 E 01/28 06:50   4 ENE 01/28 06:40   3 ENE 01/28 06:30   4 NE 01/28 06:20   5 N 01/28 06:10   6 NNE 01/28 06:00   7 NNE 01/28 05:50   6 NNE 01/28 05:40   6 NE 01/28 05:30   5 NE » Find out more