The Monitoring scheme season kicks off with the first site visit in May.

If you are wondering what our Seasearch monitoring dives are all about:

Our club adopted the Muglins as part of the Seasearch Adopt a Site monitoring scheme in 2015.  Subsequently we also adopted Sandycove. It is a citizen science scheme with the objective of collecting data on marine biology in order to better understand our environment and how it is responding to changing conditions.

A group of us did a training day to learn how to identify a list of target species and once a month we do a “Seasearch dive“.  We then send in a report on what species we saw on the day and this data is entered into a national data base.  The Curragh Sub Aqua Club made the first official recording of a crayfish on the east coast at the Muglins in 2017.

If you’d like to help out and make a difference, contact training@CSAC.ie