As participants in the Rolex Middle Sea Race battled it out with rough weather, dolphins and whales kept the crews company day and night.
When the crews sighted cetaceans, they took logs and pictures, which will now be used by Bicref, the biological conservation research foundation, as part of the Maltese Cetacean Research Project, which has been going on for 12 years.
Bicref strives to promote the importance of conservation of the seas and the need for effective action to reduce the impact of climate change. Toward this challenge, Bicref has joined the international effort called 350, which is the lower value of CO2 emissions that has to be targeted.