Kids are always interested in WHALES!

Interested in having us come to your school? Contact us using the info at the bottom of the page. If you have a gym or large enough multi-use room, we could even bring our 55 foot long inflatable fin whale!  

Educators pick Newburyport Whale Watch for
their school field trips because of:

• For our School group outings we offer a special "no cancel trip". Call our reservationists to explain the details.
   

• Our big boat - not all whale watch boats are the same! The 95 foot Prince of Whales is one of the largest of its class in the whale watch fleet. Even when at our capacity of 150 passengers, there are plenty of comfortable seats while traveling, and lots of rail space for whale watching.
   

• Our fast boat - again, not all are the same! There is a tremendous difference in the speeds of the various whale watching boats. While some boats go as slow as 10 knots (11.5 mph), our boat travels at close to 20 knots (23 mph). This means, in most cases, more time with the whales, and sometimes it is the difference between seeing whales and not.
   

• Our location - our dock is only 1 minute from Route 1, 5 minutes from I-95, and 7 minutes from I-495, with plenty of on-site parking for cars and buses. Minutes from New Hampshire!
   

• Our location (again!) - not only is Newburyport easy to get to, but its position relative to the two feeding grounds gives us the option each trip of going either east to Jeffreys Ledge or south to Stellwagen Bank. This is important! Often one area may be quiet in terms of whale activity, while the other is very active.
   

• Our affiliation with The Blue Ocean Society allows us to have expert, experienced naturalists aboard to work with your students to better understand these magnificent animals. The Blue Ocean Society uses many onboard teaching tools like baleen, a whale barnacle, sounds of whales on a CD player, posters and fact books about whales which help in creating this understanding.
   

• Our affiliation with WhaleNet - this is one of the most popular sites on the internet for students, teachers and researchers looking to share ideas and information on whale related topics. J. Michael Williamson, founder and Director of WhaleNet, teaches graduate level courses in the summer, geared for educators. Each course includes several whale watches, and we are proud that J. Michael chooses to use Newburyport Whale Watch. 

• Public information display - In the main cabin of the Prince of Whales are two state-of-the-art marine electronics units. The first is a fathometer/fish finder. It shows a cross section view of the water between our boat and the ocean bottom, reads water depth and temperature, and will also show any schools of fish underneath us, which allows you to make a good guess as to how deep the whales are going in search of food.  The second unit is a chart plotter. This amazing machine displays a color map of the area and, using input from GPS satellites, displays a flashing boat at our exact location. It also will display a track line showing where we have traveled on our voyage. Kids and their teachers can tell at a glance where we are, and where we have been since leaving the dock. 
   

• Our long-term commitment to whale research & education - In our 22nd year, we are among the earliest contributors to the humpback whale catalog produced by researchers at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and The Blue Ocean Society continues to send them their I.D. photos taken aboard the Prince of Whales each year. It has been both amazing and gratifying to see the number of identified humpbacks in the North Atlantic grow from a mere handful in the mid-1970's to over a thousand today.

Whale info sheets for elementary school 
 

Amazing Facts - interesting for all ages
 

Fact sheets for middle-high school students:
 

Humpback

Finback

Minke

Atlantic White Sided Dolphin