Foundation for Info. and Research on Marine Mammals (FIRMM)
Tarifa (Cadiz), Southern Spain.
Firmm98@aol.com
www.firmm.org

This organization is actively supporting cetacean conservation. They fund large parts of their research by offering both tourist trips and ecovolunteer programmes. During research trips they sometimes approach closer than 100m and produce disturbing sounds.
Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian Indonesian and Japanese

Original Dolphin Safari
Marina bay complex, Gibraltar.
dolphin@gibnet.gi
www.dolphinsafari.gi

Often goes closer than permitted by guidelines. Sometimes spends more than 15 minutes with the animals. Vessel design is partly improved to reduce risk of injury.
Languages: English

Turmares
Tarifa, Southern Spain.
turmares@turmares.com
www.turmares.com

Languages: Spanish, English, occasionally German

Whale Watch Tarifa/España
Tarifa, Southern Spain.
whalewatchtarifa@whalewatchtarifa.net
www.whalewatchtarifa.net

Trips are always accompanied by experienced monitors, who are leading the skippers in the sightings according to the WDCS recommendations for responsible whale watching ­ adopted as their own code of conduct and handed out with further information to our passengers before the trips Monitors are giving detailed information to the passengers in four languages (Spanish, English, German and French).