15th January 2019
Cape Fur Seal Release at Bird Island

20th December 2018
4 Sub Antartic & 1 Antarctic Seal Released

5th December 2018
Release of Silky the Cape Fur Seal

5th December 2018
Lloyd's first St Croix tour on "My China"

4th December 2018
Great Excitement in the bay with this sighting...

15th June 2018
This year Raggy Charters, conservation projects, private companies and NGOs will be hosting the Celebrating the Whales Festival on Saturday 16th June 2018 from 9am at the Pine Lodge Resort, Algoa Bay. The aim of the festival is to bring the people of...

10th May 2018
New venture first of its kind in the Eastern Cape Shark-cage diving looks set to start in Nelson Mandela Bay soon. Port Elizabeth-based Raggy Charters was at the Tourism Indaba in Durban yesterday to market the new venture, the first of its...

16th January 2018
We at Raggy Charters are thrilled to announce that the arrival of our new research vessel is in sight. After searching high and low for corporate assistance to fund the new research vessel, three companies were eager to help sponsor the expansion of ...

6th December 2017
After winning the award for Best Marine Adventure in the Eastern Cape at the provincial Lilizela awards held in East London on 21 September 2017 Raggy charters went on to attend the National Lilizela Tourism awards ceremony held on 29 October 2017 at...

2nd October 2017
On Thursday 21 September 2017 the Raggy Charters team together with the "best of the best" of tourism attended the Lilizela Tourism Awards held in East London. Being aware of the level of competition the Raggy Charters team were overjoyed when they r...

9th November 2016
Lloyd Edwards awarded for Outstanding Voluntary Conservation Service.

3rd November 2016
Lloyd Edwards awarded the OWL Awards 2016.

31st October 2016
Whale washed up between Lourie's Bay and Kini Bay

18th October 2016
On Sunday 16th October 2016 the "Best of The Best" in the tourism industry gathered together for the Lilizela Tourism Awards at the Sandton Convention Centre, in Johannesburg. Last month the provincial awards were held and out of the 589 finalists, 2...

16th April 2016
On Monday 18th April 2016 Algoa Bay was officially launched as the Bottlenose Dolphin Capital of the World. Raggy Charters and Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism hosted the launch at the Algoa Bay Yacht Club with over 270 people attending. After talking to v...

24th September 2015
Saturday 19th September was International Coastal Clean-Up Day. All over the world beach clean-ups were organised in an effort to reduce the amount of garbage and plastic pollution that plague our oceans. Each year 8 million tons of plastic is dumped...

15th September 2015
This is the forth Alikreukel arrest members from the Seaview Community have assisted with in the last year. The problem is getting a bit out of hand and escalating. The biggest problem is that the inspectors are so far from Seaview and take a while t...

3rd May 2015
The World Cetacean Alliance is an organisation dedicated to the protection of whales, dolphins and porpoises. They have recently launched the 'Net Effect' campaign as they work to reduce the impact of ghost nets on marine wildlife. These fishing nets...

20th January 2015
At 11:18 this morning members of the Seaview community reported people illegally collecting Alikreukel (South African Turban sea snails) in front of Main Road. A call was made to Inspector Dennis Mostert from DAFF and he dispatched an inspector to th...

11th January 2015
A letter to SAMSA

20th November 2014
The 2014 whale watching season has provided us with some great encounters, and we have been seeing a huge increase in calf numbers, along the entire South African coastline. Most whale sightings have included calves, among both the Southern right and...

18th November 2014
South Africa is pretty lucky when it comes to our abundant marine life and the various species we encounter here. Some only provide rare sightings but we can still boast that 11,130 different species of marine animals inhabit our shores. One of the m...

3rd November 2014
During the 15th South African Marine Science Symposium, held in July of this year, various medals and awards were presented and our very own resident scientist and Raggy Charters co-owner Dr Lorien Pichegru was honoured with the SANCOR Emerging Sc...

13th October 2014
The Algoa Bay Hope Spot will be launched by Dr Sylvia Earle on 11th December 2014, and recently Raggy Charters own Dr Lorien Pichegru became Committee Chair of the ABHS council. Her roles are to help organise public events and raise awareness about m...

2nd August 2014
Most people have heard of Migaloo, the rare white humpback whale, that has been sighted off the coast of Australia since 1991. This whale was the only documented white humpback whale in the world, until 2011 when another 100% white humpback calf was ...

29th July 2014
A severely entangled humpback whale was spotted by locals and a rescue mission was quickly put in to action to save this poor creature!

21st July 2014
Dr Lorien Pichegru of Raggy Charters was one of three awarded with SANCOR Emerging Scientist Award.

17th July 2014
During a whale watching cruise a family of orcas were spotted at Cape Recife which swam around the boat.

12th July 2014
With the humpback whales making their annual migration to the warmer waters of South Africa we hope the locals of Port Elizabeth will take advantage and do some whale watching.