An area of shallow sandbank in UK offshore waters to the east of the Isle of Man was identified by the JNCC to be considered as a potential offshore SAC (Special Area of Conservation) in 2004.
This report supports an accompanying Geographical Information System (GIS) project (manx1.mxd) that holds the datasets gathered during this survey work. The report identifies a number of biotopes and sediment types in the survey area and justifies the selection of these biotope classifications with illustrative data.