You know who likes to cruise the coast in the summer? Great white sharks, of course. Right now, off the coast of Cape Cod, a team of scientists is attempting to tag and track the most white sharks ever during a single expedition. But the sharks are proving to be shy and cautious about taking the bait.
Led by the marine nonprofit Ocearch and using its vessel, a modified Alaskan crab fishing boat, the expedition has the capacity to tag and study up to 20 white sharks during its month in the Atlantic. Aboard are Ocearch Founding Chairman Chris Fischer, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Senior Scientist Greg Skomal, experts from the Mote Marine Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a diverse team of academic researchers from multiple colleges and universities. Read more...
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