Looks like Jaws is on our team now. Shark tracking, a practice among many new tech breakthroughs to keep an eye on the apex predators, may lead to “enormous untapped potential” on analy…
To do so, sharks among other marine life are being fitted with groundbreaking and micro-sized, “fancy new satellite tags,” Tobey Curtis, study author and fishery management specialist for NOAA Fisheries in Gloucester, MA,“They have the capability to capture these oceanographic data that can inform hurricane models, which is really cool….
During landfall, many sharks — especially of the nurse, bull and great hammerhead variety as opposed to larger ones like tiger sharks — abandoned local Biscayne Bay to head for deeper waters,Sharks also appear to show the intuition in telling apart a simple bad weather system from a hurricane as well, notes Michael Heithaus, who researches sharks at Florida International University.
They also can detected changes in water’s conductivity — 2007 research off the Long Island Sound and Jacksonville found sharks can strongly sense electric fields — as an early warning sign for bad weather.Getty Images
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