While thousands of bathers approach the beaches of Florida (United States) As Spring Brings Days of Sunshine and Water, a non-profit Ocarca, who is engaged in ocean research, carefully monitors a huge great white shark From 3.35 meters (about 11 feet long) e 545 kilos (£1,200).
Osearch tracking is displayed on your site via Global Shark Tracker, There the shark, a huge soft female shark called “Maple tree”it was detected southeast of St. George Island, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday morning.
During the past two winter seasons, Maple has spent most of its time off the Gulf Coast, the organization said.
Tracking the shark is possible because an Ocearch expedition in 2001 off the coast of Nova Scotia (Canada) managed to tag it and put a tracker on it.
According to a note by New York PostMaple has one distinctive mark on its left side: a bite wound that possibly came from a fight with a larger great white shark.
The organization has been tracking the shark ever since it was first tagged off the coast of Nova Scotia in September 2001. They named it “Maple” after the maple leaf, one of Canada’s national emblems.
According to its website, OCEARCH is an international non-profit organization that conducts “research into our ocean’s giants to help scientists gather previously unattainable data in the ocean.”
According to the official site osearch.orgTheir mission is to accelerate the ocean’s return to balance and abundance through innovations in scientific research, education, outreach and policy.”
Source: Clarin
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