Electronic tracking system allows scientists to tail white sharks more effectively

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This graphic shows the route of a single tagged white shark as it swam from the Farallon Islands off the central coast of California to the mid-oceanic area known as the White Shark Caf and then back. Credit: Stanford University
This graphic shows the route of a single tagged white shark as it swam from the Farallon Islands, off the central coast of California, to the mid-oceanic area known as the “White Shark Café” and then back. Credit: Stanford University

It's hard to study a creature when you only catch fleeting glimpses of it. Up until recently, that was one of the big stumbling blocks for marine biologists and ecologists, but advances in electronic tracking technology have allowed them to peer farther across, and deeper under, the surface of the oceans than ever before.


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