We've just found our first dead dolphin floating in the water. The sea is very rough and they are hard to spot - and even harder to retrieve when we have weather like this.

Normally we would put one of our Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIBs) in the water but today we had a team of people trying to lassoo the body from the poop deck. After about an hour we finally managed to get a rope around it and bring it up on deck.

This morning we spotted lots of live dolphins and it's hard to explain the feeling when you then have a dead one on board. The colouring and markings are so beautiful. But the contrast when you can see all the telltale signs on its body caused by a struggle to escape from a fishing net - its dorsal fin and flippers had cuts and net marks, across its beak were more rope marks. And the colour of the blood - how can it be just so red?

Last year we found 12 dead dolphins - 11 of these were definately male. Yet again this one is a male dolphin. One more that your kids won't get to see.

Sarah, Campaigner