By observing dolphins and whales with the Shelltone Whale Project, you are helping to protect them by choosing responsible whale-watching, and you are enabling enthusiasts to work with cetaceans on a daily basis at sea.
Open to all, we have created and selected cetacean-watching bases to share our passion and our values with as many people as possible, and to give enthusiasts, biologists and sailors the chance to create their own bases.
For responsible whale watching.
Book your place on one of our boats and share the intimacy of cetaceans while helping to protect them.
A new, respectful and conscious approach to cetacean watching.
Choose respectful cetacean watching.
The Shelltone Whale Project was founded by Pierre Lavagne de Castellan, a marine bioacoustician and ethologist. It is a non-profit association recognised as being in the public interest for its environmental actions and its acoustic research on cetaceans.
Since 1981 in Maui, Hawaii, the mission of the Shelltone Whale Project has been to play, improvise, co-write and record music with whales, sublimating through this joint creation the fundamentals of inter-species communication with cetaceans.
These years of research into the intimacy of animals, and their deepest feelings about our presence among them, have enabled us to develop a non-aggressive approach that is extremely effective because the animals are confident.
Today, this experience has enabled us, while continuing our research, to validate operators throughout the world who practise respectful and conscious approaches to cetaceans. These bases are signatories to our "Shelltone Whale Project RESPECT" charter.
We have selected these bases for you so that you can make the right choice for your excursion. You can sign up directly from our site for their expeditions, in complete confidence and at the best price, while allowing us to continue our selection work in the field to validate the operators who are respectful, for your greatest pleasure and for the well-being of the animals we love.
Discover the bases we've selected for you and make the most of these mindful excursions.
Pierre Lavagne de Castellan
