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British Divers Marine Life Rescue British Divers Marine Life Rescue is a frontline charity responding to marine mammals in distress

🥰 Taking support for us up a NOTCH! 💎We’ve teamed up with NOTCH for our very own BDMLR collection… and we’re already obs...
18/10/2026

🥰 Taking support for us up a NOTCH! 💎

We’ve teamed up with NOTCH for our very own BDMLR collection… and we’re already obsessed with it 😁

Marine wildlife designs as well as BDMLR favourites, there's plenty to choose from. Pick your charms, build your bracelet, and drop a few hints if you need to... Christmas is around the corner 👀

10% of all BDMLR NOTCH sales comes to us, supporting our work helping marine animals in distress 💙

Which one is your favourite? 🐢

Explore the collection 👇
https://notch.io/collections/british-divers-marine-life-rescue

Following our recent post about an emaciated Risso's in Wales, initial necropsy results have been released.Thank you aga...
18/10/2026

Following our recent post about an emaciated Risso's in Wales, initial necropsy results have been released.

Thank you again to Marine Environmental Monitoring and Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme- UK strandings for all of their ongoing hard work in to investigating causes of illness and disease in stranded cetaceans.

🦭 Sleepy, not stuck! 💤Belly up and flippers out… young whitecoat pups can choose some unusual sleeping positions!These ...
17/10/2026

🦭 Sleepy, not stuck! 💤

Belly up and flippers out… young whitecoat pups can choose some unusual sleeping positions!

These youngsters spend much of their time resting between feeds, conserving energy while they grow and build up their blubber layer

A quiet stretch of beach makes the perfect bedroom, even if their chosen position looks a little awkward to us people. Their mothers will often be close by and waiting for you to leave their pup alone

Lying on their back doesn’t mean the pup is stuck or need turning over. Please give resting pups plenty of space, keep dogs away and enjoy watching quietly from a distance

Let snoozing seals sleep 🤍

16/10/2026

🦭 Someone is playing with their food again.. 😂🐟

It is World Food Day, and seal pups in our units are celebrating with their rather fishy breakfasts. Every fish counts, even the ones that take the scenic route to their mouths…

While dinner doubles up as enrichment, feeding hungry seal pups is a big part of caring for them as they regain strength and get ready for life back in the wild

💙 Our fish vouchers help keep rescued pups fed throughout their recovery, making a thoughtful gift for a wildlife lover — or a little act of kindness just because

🐟 Buy a fish voucher and help put dinner on the menu. Comment "FISH" for the link ❤️

Table manners not guaranteed!





🐬 Entangled dolphin in Suffolk: Update Following yesterday's challenging rescue of an entangled common dolphin in Suffo...
15/10/2026

🐬 Entangled dolphin in Suffolk: Update

Following yesterday's challenging rescue of an entangled common dolphin in Suffolk, the situation has taken a saddening turn

Teams have faced a difficult 24 hours, though the cooperation and support between everyone involved has been invaluable yesterday and today, despite the outcome

Needless to say, all involved are devastated. It is unusual to receive a callout to a live entangled dolphin, and this incident demonstrates once again the dangers of marine litter to wildlife in the environment

Read the update here 👇
https://bdmlr.org.uk/entangled-dolphin-rescue-in-suffolk

⚠️ Image warning as later images included show injuries to the dolphin. These images are not on the website link.

Essex 4x4 Response Environment Agency Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service Suffolk Constabulary Official Page Norfolk & Suffolk 4x4 Response

🐬 A jaw sealed shut… 😱With rope wrapped around its beak and pectoral fins, a common dolphin swimming in a Suffolk river...
14/10/2026

🐬 A jaw sealed shut… 😱

With rope wrapped around its beak and pectoral fins, a common dolphin swimming in a Suffolk river needed urgent help today

But with the dolphin moving up and down the river and keeping its distance from vessels, getting close enough to help would take patience and careful teamwork

Our Marine Mammal Medics joined Suffolk Fire and Rescue crews to help — and our response isn’t over yet

For the full story and latest update 👇

https://bdmlr.org.uk/entangled-dolphin-rescue-in-suffolk

🐬 Very Finteresting 🤔A brief sighting of a dorsal fin gives more clues than you might think! Dorsal fins on cetaceans he...
13/10/2026

🐬 Very Finteresting 🤔

A brief sighting of a dorsal fin gives more clues than you might think!

Dorsal fins on cetaceans help regulate body temperature and assist with stability when swimming. Distinctive scars, notches and patterns, as well as the overall shape, help us ID individual animals too.. helping to build catalogues of individuals within a species

Matching them helps reveal where cetaceans travel to, which areas they may return to and potential breeding behaviours, all contributing to the knowledge that can help protect them and their species

One of the fins pictured below belongs to a dolphin named “Runny Paint”. She is over 30 years old, frequenting the North East coastline (presently Yorkshire and the North East) and has had at least three recorded calves! 😍

📷 Fred Tiles

🦭 Swim or shuffle? 🏃‍♀️Watching a seal move across a beach, it’s hard to imagine how effortlessly they can glide underwa...
12/10/2026

🦭 Swim or shuffle? 🏃‍♀️

Watching a seal move across a beach, it’s hard to imagine how effortlessly they can glide underwater. The secret is in their back end!

Their hind flippers contain bony digits joined by webbing. Spread out like fans, they create a broad surface to push against the water, powering the seal along

Unlike sea lions, grey and common seals can’t rotate their hind flippers underneath their bodies to walk

Instead, they move across land by flexing their bodies… the gallumphing wiggle we see on the beach!

We often see injuries on their hind flippers, typically from their environment, other seals and sadly occasionally dog bites.
If you see an injury on a pup you're concerned about - our hotline: 01825 765546 📞

🐄 Oh, baby! 🦭This rescue was every bit as interesting as the photo suggests! 😂Our Marine Mammal Medics were called out t...
11/10/2026

🐄 Oh, baby! 🦭

This rescue was every bit as interesting as the photo suggests! 😂

Our Marine Mammal Medics were called out to help a tiny seal pup, but things took a rather unexpected turn when some considerably larger locals decided to get involved! 🐄

Let's just say, this wasn't quite the rescue our team had anticipated!

🎥 The full rescue video is coming this week! Keep an eye on our page to find out what happened next

🐄 + 🦭 = Not your average day at the beach!

🦭 With the waves rolling in... 🌊It’s a worrying sight, and the instinct to help a tiny pup like this is completely under...
10/10/2026

🦭 With the waves rolling in... 🌊

It’s a worrying sight, and the instinct to help a tiny pup like this is completely understandable. But please don’t climb down to them

Whitecoat grey seal pups can swim, but they’re not yet strong swimmers. Their fluffy coats can become waterlogged, making time in rough seas particularly challenging

Approaching could frighten a pup back into the water when they need to rest, while slippery rocks, breaking waves and changing tides can put you in danger too

Stay somewhere safe and call us. A lone pup isn’t necessarily abandoned; their mum could be somewhere nearby

📞 Concerned? Call BDMLR on 01825 765546, available 24/7

An accurate location and photos taken from a safe distance will help our team assess the situation ❤️

Address

Lime House, Regency Close
Uckfield
TN221DS

Telephone

+441825765546

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