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09/06/2026

How do you think our water temperatures are fairing this time of year?

Our citizen scientists on the Isle of Man surveyed the sea temperatures recently and the seas off Ramsey are a toasty 13 degrees.

Will we see a gradual increase in temperatures over the next few months - will the sun make an appearance again?!

Thank you to our surveyors!

29/05/2026

Welcome to our new look website:

https://bigbluebag.org/

Here you'll find all our protocol videos, how to access our App on Coreo and a new shop!

Join The Big Blue Bag mission: a citizen-science conservation kit empowering communities and individuals to monitor seabirds, microplastics, debris and sea-surface temperature.

14/05/2026

Our local Kingsbridge cinema is showing the feature documentary about how one person is tirelessly fighting to save the health of our rives, lakes and seas.

Follow the link for all info. 🧜‍♀️

A passionate sea swimmer turned reluctant activist, Jo Bateman takes on one of the UK’s biggest water companies in a David-and-Goliath battle to protect our oceans.

12/05/2026

12/05/2026

We've collated all your scientific data since you started sampling and recording your findings and we're very happy to share some brilliant stats and figures with you!

29/04/2026

We have been busy evaluating the data which our wonderful citizen scientists have collected since last April.

We will be publishing all our findings over the next two weeks.

For now - here is an example of marine debris one of our most active contributors has collected from his local beaches.

For a moment it looks rather nice to look at - but look more closely and you'll be able to distinguish all sorts of waste, rubbish and litter.

All now where it should be - in a bin and not on our shores.

Thank you!