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Pelagics mission is to drive projects, innovations and solutions that safe guard and revitalise the worlds most vast and uncharted wilderness: The open Ocean

Our vision is an Ocean in harmony with humans. This is built on conviction that collaborative efforts between communities, experts and innovators can catalyse the transformative change that is desperately needed

14/10/2026

🗑️ One person's rubbish is another fish's treasure 🐟

In the open sea, floating objects like driftwood or human garbage can become colonised by a whole community of fish!

This is a natural behaviour, with smaller fish closer, and larger predatory fish in "outer orbits" 💫

We observed this in the Alborán sea recently, with juvenile Mahi mahi circling this wooden chair, which in turn was a home to a variety of small fish and benthic creatures.

This effect is important to the open sea's creatures. Many times however, we are compelled to remove objects, especially if they are dangerous such as plastic ghost gear, or pose a risk to boaters.

When objects are colonised in this manner, they are called "Fish Aggregating Devices" (FADs). They can be natural, but fisheries also use artificial FADs to catch species such as tunas.

Let us know if you found this information interesting. We will keep monitoring the open sea, getting closer to the living surface of our planet, and reporting back what we encounter ⛵

12/10/2026

What did we catch? 💀

While this won't clean up the sea, retrieving drifting plastic gear gives us a good idea of what is floating in the Mediterranean, posing a risk to wildlife.

What was most shocking to you?

12/10/2026

Tribes of the sea 🐬

This pod of dolphins appears every time we are at sea. They have calves, so we stay away. Sometimes that suits them, others they themselves choose to come and check us out.

We take this behaviour for granted. Imagine a land predator like the wolf, choosing to run alongside us for a bit. Looking at us straight in the eye. Its a special thing.

12/10/2026

Feliz Dia de la Hispanidad 🇪🇸⛵
Desde la embarcación Lokate.

09/10/2026

In Autumn, the sea goes through a series of small springs. The cool winds move the warm upper layer, and the thermocline breaks, allowing much-needed water mixing.

Prior to their appearance as full-grown jellies, the free-swimming larvae of the Mediterranean jellyfish, called “planula”, began their journey as plankton in the drifting cosmos, and during the summer found space on the seafloor where they developed into sessile “polyps”. At the end of summer, when the waters began to move, the polyps released small “ephyrae” in a process called strobilation, and it is these ephyrae that grow into what we call the Mediterranean jellyfish.

The jellies, which are harmless to humans, cover entire patches of the sea converting them into a watery alien world, their pulsating bells just below the surface, often in such abundance that they are constantly
floating into each other, knocking in slow motion, or even piled one on top of the other as if vying for space.

During these weeks of the year, the water is still warm enough for us to slip in quite comfortably. Seeing these jellies underwater is a beautiful sight, drifting alongside them in their hypnotic motions. The small pilot fish—striped blue and white— are also here,
swimming around the jellies, true to their natural behaviour of tagging along on the adventures of larger voyagers.

These jellies are the final sexual stage of their species, and they will release eggs and s***m into the water for external fertilisation, contributing hundreds of millions of tiny offspring to a new generation of plankton. They themselves die, like wilting flowers which will disappear from the seas until next year.

The cycle begins again: the free-swimming planula,
which later fix themselves to the seabed as polyps.
The bodies of the jellies disintegrate so fast that to our eyes they simply disappear in the matter of a few days, dissolving into the seawater once more, returning the organic matter and vital energy that was only borrowed in the first place.

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Excerpt from an ongoing project*

23/09/2026

The Southern Ocean runs on krill.

These tiny creatures provide food for whales, penguins, seals, seabirds and fish, supporting
some of the most iconic wildlife on Earth.

Yet while Antarctic wildlife is increasingly under pressure from climate change and human
activities, krill are being extracted at record levels to produce products such as omega-3 health
supplements, aquaculture feed and pet food.

Every tonne removed from the ocean is a tonne unavailable to the animals that depend on it for
survival. The future of Antarctica should not be traded for products we can live without. It's time
to put wildlife first.

Join our Antarctic Avengers and

Sign the pledge, and tell policymakers of leading krill fishing nations they should too.

🐧 Swap krill oil for algae omega-3
🐧 Check your pet food
🐧 Ask your supermarket about their farmed salmon
🐧 Add your voice at act.our-antarctica.com

05/09/2026

✨ The drifting cosmos ✨

We spend time very near the sea surface, moving slowly, and often with our engine off. In warm months, we also get into the water.

This means that we are more in tune with whats going on upon the Ocean surface, than typical modern research vessels. Due to this, we are enhancing the data and imagery we will collect from the epipelagic layer.

To this end, we welcome potential collaborations, researchers, or students, with ideas for sampling, data analysis, or using the data we already compile. Get in touch via email or DMs.

One of our main goals is to see how productive our little research sailboat can be each time we leave the harbour. If you are fascinated and intrigued by the "drifting cosmos" which covers 70% of our planet's surface, and have project idea, let us know.

21/08/2026

Its now been a year since we first stepped foot on Lokate and began our adventure taking her from Gandía to Almerimar. In this first year of PELAGICS field work we have come a long way, and Lokate has already began with its work:
- Taking data on marine megafauna
- Monitoring ghost gear and dangerous macroplastics
- Supporting the development of a deep-sea camera
- Preliminary observations of open sea plankton
This has been on an absolutely minimum budget, so we are currently working on grants which can get us more time out of the harbour, and being useful.
We wonder what year 2 of Lokate has in store!

🇪🇸 Ya hemos cumplido un año desde que empezó nuestra primera aventura a bordo Lokate desde Gandía a Almerimar. En este primer año de trabajo de campo de PELÁGICOS hemos avanzado en varios aspectos:
- Tomando datos de megafauna
- Monitorizando pesca fantasma y macroplasticos peligrosos
- Apoyando el desarrollo de una camara para mar profundo
- Datos preliminares de plankton de mar abierto
Todo esto ha sido con un presupuesto mínimo, por lo que ahora mismo estamos trabajando en buscar fondos que nos permitan salir más de puerto, y ser productivos.
A ver qué nos espera este segundo año con Lokate!

15/08/2026

Conservation work is 90% office work, maybe 10% field work, and out of that, some truly magic moments that make it all feel worth the effort and renew spirits 🐬🧡

📸 Molly.k Grace

10/08/2026

🇪🇸 Nuestro velero LOKATE lleva casi un año en Almerimar, un puerto vital para la conservación de la Mar desde los años 80, y queremos aprovechar para agradecer el trato recibido y la colaboración.
El apoyo de nuestro puerto base está siendo vital para poder desarrollar nuestros proyectos, y poco a poco ir creciendo como asociación.
¡Muchas gracias!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Our research vessel LOKATE has been in Almerimar for almost a year. Almerimar has been a vital harbour for marine conservation since the 80s, and we want to show our appreciation for the collaboration.
Support from the harbour is vital for our programmes, and for us to keep growing as a non-profit.
Thank you!

Puerto Deportivo Almerimar 🌅

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