However, it is always useful to have details of preferred areas of work. The four main areas of activity are guiding, research, educational workshops and special projects. Our role is to assist where there is a guide- normally on the bigger boats, and provide a fuller service on the smaller boats. It is the ability to make people fully appreciate the value of the whales and dolphins visited . In addition to guiding duties, all volunteers have to assist with research data collection and with the project s PR work on their allotted boat.
Guides have to help develop the boat as a centre of whale watching excellence.
The projects are involved in a broad range of research initiatives. In addition to our on going and planned research, the projects will also consider innovative proposals for new research from anywhere in the world. Ideas must be submitted the end of November each year for work starting the following summer. All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of associations in Tenerife including La Laguna University, Tenerife Conservation and Proyecto Ambiental Tenerife. This work is now going into its fourth year and the database built-up of some 300 animals is being used as the basis of its own work by La Laguna University.