New Quay dolphins named after Tallie Brazier who died in crash

Tallie, who was from Oswestry, Shropshire, graduated from Bangor University last year with a degree in Marine Biology with Vertebrate Zoology.

She then spent the summer working as an intern at Sea Watch in New Quay, Ceredigion, where she actually spotted and logged the dolphin that would go on to share her name.

“We would very often get video calls when she was on the boat and there’d be a pod of dolphins behind her and you’d hear squeals of delight and joy at what they’d seen,” said Adele.

Sea Watch is a national marine environmental charity working to improve the conservation of whales, dolphins and porpoises in the seas around Britain and Ireland.

Its flagship project in New Quay monitors Cardigan Bay’s 200 dolphins, the only semi-resident population of bottlenose dolphins in Wales, and the largest in the UK.

Adele said Tallie’s love of sealife began after watching animated film Finding Nemo when she was two or three years old.

Then from junior school she decided she wanted to work with dolphins and began scuba diving at eight. She eventually became a Padi-qualified rescue diver, diving all over the world.

This month she was due to return to Bangor to begin her Master’s in Marine Predator Ecology.

“She had so much to do and so much to live for,” said Adele.