The Nautilus Project

This week our youth monitors bioblitzed joined by Prior Park School 🦀

Together they spotted and identified different marine invertebrate and bird species and logged them on the Nautilus Environmental Monitoring Online (NEMO) app 🤳📱

These outdoor activities foster engagement with nature whilst providing valuable data for conservation 🌊

Nautilus Marine Science Studies 🌊

Awe and wonder at Camp Bay with Notre Dame pupils 💙

They had an opportunity to interact with some of our fascinating marine invertebrates through our catch, learn and release program 🦀🐙🪼🐚🦑

This reconnection with nature is vital in order to instill a passion for our marine wildlife in our future generations who will in no doubt do so much better than we have in protecting our beautiful coastline 🙏

Not all learning takes place in a classroom and the great outdoors in this small corner of the world we are blessed to call home, deserves our respect and protection 💙

139th Great Gibraltar Beach Clean 🇬🇮

St Anne's pupils cleared up all the plastic along Eastern Beach earlier this morning 🌊

Taking into account that the beach trucks had just recently cleaned, we managed to fill quite a few buckets full of debris.

180kg later and a much cleaner beach 💙

Gibraltar the future looks bright with our youth at the helm 🌞

Thanks Metalrok LTD for the super service as always

In the spotlight 💡

A massive shoutout to Chaim & Joshua for their conservation efforts 💙

It might not be their rubbish, yet their civic responsibility shines brightly, even at such a tender age.

They become our latest Med Ocean Heroes 🌊

Nautilus 138th Great Gibraltar Beach Clean 🪣

Our summer youth monitors joined Prior Park School students and tackled this hotspot once again at the GSLA revetment area.

The debris was collected by Metalrok LTD in a bid to salvage as much as possible, avoiding landfill 🙏

World Ocean Day, our staple event of the year took place on Monday at Sunborn Gibraltar

Themed "Where Youth Lead, Oceans Win" the ceremony filled up the Aurora Ballroom with over 350 people attending.
The school competiton was a resounding success yet again 🐳🐬🐋

Over four hundred entries were submitted across all the categories and the standard blew the judging panel away!
After much deliberation, we present this year's winners 🏆

The Nautilus team convey their most heartfelt gratitude to all the participants, pupils and teachers for their hard work throughout the year - the quality of the entries improve year on year 💙

A huge shout out to all the sponsors that have supported our Nautilus Blue Week 🌏

Congratulations to all the winners! 🌊

⭐ Nautilus Volunteer Award 2026 ⭐

We are delighted to announce our volunteer of the year recipient.

Voted unanimously, Cameron Byrne received the coveted award in recognition of her tireless dedication towards the charity.

This remarkable young lady consistently goes over and beyond the call of duty, always with a spring in her step and a smile on her face.

Her attributes, skills, eagerness to learn and compassion are admirable. She inspires us all to do better - to be better.

Cameron will be travelling to Italy shortly to represent Nautilus at SOHO Language School.

Cami, we are thrilled to honor you - Thank you!

As Nautilus Blue Week comes to a close, we take a moment to look back on the first internship of the summer 🌊

Luca and Sidney, both marine biology undergrads have joined Alex, our youth leader, for a science placement with the charity 🥼🧪

During their stay, they've qualified as PADI divers, tried out freediving with local expert Dean Chipolina and bioblitzed during snorkeling at Historic Rosia Bay 🤿
The students logged marine animals sightings onboard the HM Customs vessel - a trip highlight! 🚤
Together with Prior Park School the interns removed 90kg of refuse from the GSLA revetment 🪣♻️
Seagrass research, marine monitoring on Jetskis and interviews on GBC radio have also featured in their itineraries.
They visited Montessorri nursery to help deliver a workshop and formed part of our World Ocean Day celebrations 🎤🍃

They joined the Gibraltar football fan base at Europa Point and cheered on Gibraltar Football Association players v Cayman Islands ⚽️🇬🇮

A real insight into a whirlwind Nautilus fortnight! 💪