Stellwagen Bank
National Marine Sanctuary
Multimedia Gallery

Visit one of the world’s premiere whale watching destinations to see breaching humpback whales and more.

Northeast and Great Lakes Region

Mallows Bay-Potomac River Monitor Stellwagen Bank Thunder Bay

West Coast Region

Channel Islands Cordell Bank Greater Farallones Monterey Bay Olympic Coast

Pacific Islands Region

American Samoa Hawaii Humpback Whale Papahānaumokuākea

Southeast Region

Florida Keys Flower Garden Banks Gray's Reef
waves crash against rocks on a rocky coast

Climate Change in your Sanctuaries
Fish swim around a colorful reef

Banks 101
A white shark takes a bite form a whale carcass

White Sharks Scavenging
a person looks at a whale tail in the distance

Steward Spotlight: Jaxine Wolfe
A whale watching boat next to a breaching whale

Whale Watching
A right whale swimming with her calf

North Atlantic Right Whales
A seal pokes its head out of the water

Gray Seals
An old picture of a ship

The Wreck of Paul Palmer
view of a sunset from the side of a ship

Sandlance
overhead view of humpback whales swimming underwater

Humpback Whales
man on a boat about to reach out with a device to tag a breaching whale

Tagging Humpback Whales
seabird soaring through the air

Christmas Bird Count
photo of whale feeding and lots of seagulls surrounding it

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
A humpback whale breaches near a whale watching boat

Stellwagen Bank and Monterey Bay
photo of studets and an rov in the pool

Charles W. Morgan Tour
stormy mayo standing against a wall

Charles "Stormy" Mayo
diver examining the wreck of paul palmer

Paul Palmer - Port Side
diver examining the wreck of paul palmer surrounded by fish

Paul Palmer - Stern
partially buried remains of the coal schooner Paul Palmer

Paul Palmer