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Captain Brett McBride streams seawater over the gills of a nearly 15-foot, 2,292-pound great white shark on the research vessel Ocearch in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Chatham, Mass. A crew of researchers and fishermen are tagging great white sharks off Cape Cod in an unorthodox way. The Ocearch team baits the fish and leads them onto a lift, tagging and taking blood, tissue and semen samples up close from the world's most feared predator. The real-time satellite tag tracks the shark each time its dorsal fin breaks the surface, plotting its location on a map.
Stephan Savoia / AP
Scientists collect blood and tissue samples from a female great white shark on the research vessel Ocearch in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Chatham, Mass. Before release, the nearly 15-foot, 2,292-pound shark was named Genie for famed shark researcher Eugenie Clark. The Ocearch team baits the fish and leads them onto a lift, tagging and taking blood, tissue and semen samples up close from the world's most feared predator. The real-time satellite tag tracks the shark each time its dorsal fin breaks the surface, plotting its location on a map.
Stephan Savoia / AP
Researchers screw satellite and acoustic tags onto the dorsal fin of a great white shark on the research vessel Ocearch in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Chatham, Mass. Once released, the tags will track the location and speed of the nearly 15-foot, 2,292-pound Genie, named for famed shark researcher Eugenie Clark.
Stephan Savoia / AP
Ocearch Captain Brett McBride, right, and Co-Captain Jody Whitworth tie strips of fish to a reinforced cooler containing whale blubber in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Chatham, Mass. The cooler is attached to a cage containing whale blubber on the ocean floor in hopes of attracting great white sharks. The Ocearch team baits the fish and leads them onto a lift, tagging and taking blood, tissue and semen samples up close from the world's most feared predator. The real-time satellite tag tracks the shark each time its dorsal fin breaks the surface, plotting its location on a map.
From AP : CHATHAM, Mass. - The scientists and fishermen on board the Ocearch, a repurposed crabbing vessel, received word that their scouting boat had hooked a great white shark, sparking a flurry of activity.
They were about to get up close and personal with the animal, more than 2,000 pounds and nearly 15 feet long.
"I'm nervous," said state shark expert Greg Skomal, who has tagged great whites, but never like this, never this close.
The Ocearch crew tags great white sharks in an unorthodox way. Unlike Skomal's team, which has tagged a dozen great whites off the Massachusetts coast with harpoons, Chris Fischer's Ocearch crew baits the fish and leads them onto a large platform that lifts them out of the water for tagging and collecting blood, tissue and semen samples. Continue reading this story here.
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Babel going about trying to devour, before God tears them into pieces. May God send the stone upon babel and it's cohort nimrods.
Magnificient animal!!!
I don't think that tracking device is going to help the guy sharks get the girl sharks.
I have that same drill. I usually only use it on kangaroo, however.\s
Would it be considered cruelty to anamials if we fed all the politicans/lawyers in the U.S. to the great whites? I am sure the sharks would have IBS among other illnesses. It is very possible the sharks will not eat shiit though? Sure would cure alot of ill's the U.S. has though.
This is insane... scientists congratulating themselves after capturing and drilling a metal object into the shark. Humans are far more dangerous than sharks, and we'll last much less time on Earth than sharks!
Scientists need to find ways to keep our planet from overheating, and we need to protect elephants, rhinos, coral and thousands of other living things that are being hunted, destroyed and degraded by humans!! Please stop hugging each other you fools!!!!
Marine biologists and scientists do some very important work - This is a great story piece!
Why is this news? They've been doing this for awhile. I think it's crazy interesting.
Did no one watch Shark Men??
Why do they always go after the White sharks? Everybody knows that it's the darker ones that cause all the trouble... Bull's, Reef's, OWT's...
Bravo!! Totali jealous of their job (even if it pays nothing).
Being on TV pays plenty, which is why they can continue to do this.
these guys are overrated "researchers". chris fischer, the redhead wife and kid of his, and the captain douche were former ocean hunters and spearfished on the "Go Fisch" for espn years ago. they are in it for the money and nothing else. boycott these folks and their shows. i like the fact they are trying to come across as researchers when they have killed more fish and wildlife than some of the great whites they are "catch and releasing" ever did.
publicity publicity publicity.... ugh. come on, guys. try doing it without cameras and actually aide research of sharks and wildlife as we know it before it's gone.
I'm glad someone else is on to their game. If these were elephants, people would not be so sympathetic to putting these large animals through such stress. Where is there any evidence that the people involved are "scientists" with any real credentials? I just did a search on Google Scholar and found no published papers produced by those involved in this so-called "research," which provides very little in the way of valuable information. People, you must begin to look a little deeper than just swallowing news stories with no critical thinking whatsoever. It's very disheartening, especially from intelligent viewers of msnbc. Just because an animal or science channel shows it, doesn't mean it is good for the environment or the species involved. Try googling on their names and finding what real academic scientists and conservationists feel about this research. I find it sad that their efforts receive such media attention and accolade considering the limited amount of funds available for real research and conservation efforts conducted by qualified scientists.
Great ! Now we have a bunch of pissed off sharks swimming around looking for the guys on the elevator that " Humiliated " them. This will undoubtedly make the no wave surfers in Cape Cod nervous. Thanks Science Infidels !
I hear if humans disappeared shark survival would be assured. So commit genocide and give wildlife a break. Are you doing your part? Yes I can see your point voting for Mitt is committing genocide.
That's odd... that so-called "white" shark is mostly grey! Makes one wonder why it isn't called the great-GREY shark? lol
To all the PETA lovers: join the real world.
P.S. wouldn't you want to touch that tooth, just to say you did?
They need a BIGGER BOAT!