Comforting Great White Shark tracking map

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The White Shark Café is a remote area in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, and it's the winter and spring habitat of great white sharks. It was coined in 2002 by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium who were studying the geolocation information of tagged sharks. While researchers know where the sharks hang out, they don't know why. White Shark Cafe follows researchers off the coast of San Francisco as they tag and track white sharks, hoping to find out more about why they congregate for long periods of time away from their primary food sources along the coastlines. Check out footage from the film, and meet one of the sharks, Omoo, who has his own Facebook page.

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Kooktastic
1 year ago

From the article:

"Since both male and female great whites have been tracked there, one early hypothesis was that mating occurred there. Continued studies have revealed that juvenile sharks also travel to the area, suggesting the trip serves some other purpose."

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An obvious guess (to me) is that there is a seasonal GWS food source there of which us humans are unaware.

drp
1 year ago

They couldn't use yellow dots?

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