MY SHARK GUY Dr. Gregory Skomal is THE SHARK GUY who had this SHARK-ING Experience this week! OMG> Thank Goodness he’s OK and joining me this morning at 10:20am. LOVE this guy! What happened was…A breaching white shark off Cape Cod surprised the heck out of him and a he’s a veteran shark researcher! Today Gregory will share his wild close encounter with the great white shark in this video that took place last week off Wellfleet. This video was shared by The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
Despite the enormous scientific and public interest in white sharks, large gaps in our understanding of this species remain. Cape Cod has become an aggregation site for great white sharks, presenting a rare and incredible research opportunity. “For the first time, modern scientists have predictable access to white sharks in the North Atlantic and the ability to study their life history and ecology over multiple spatial and temporal scales,” explains leading shark expert, Dr. Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF).
White sharks have been studied in California and other areas of the world for over two decades. However, on the east coast of the United States there is very little known about this species. In 2009, DMF biologists, Dr. Greg Skomal and John Chisholm were the first to successfully tag and track great whites in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean using high tech tags. We now have the ability to track local and long range movements, study behavior and biology, and estimate population size.
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SHARK WEEK ON DEAMND : In case you missed him during Discovery Channels 30th Anniversary Shark Week, you may want to watch on demand as Dr Gregory Skomal presents ‘Jaws In Paradise’. He and his Shark Cam and the Woods Hole team go to the Bahamas to investigate the private lives of bull, and hammerhead sharks, guided by Doc Gruber and Dr. Tristan Guttridge of the Bimini Shark Lab. In the past, Shark Cam has revealed fascinating new behaviors of white sharks ? what new things will the team discover about the hunting techniques of these other fierce species.
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