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A dramatic spike in the number of great white sharks has been detected in the waters off the US coast, as the largest ever ...
There's been a sizeable increase in the number of great white sharks being tracked off the US coast and experts have issued ...
A record-breaking great white shark was spotted swimming off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. on July 18. The shark, named ...
The 14ft great white shark, which weighs a whopping 1,653 pounds, was recently pinged on August 2, meaning "Contender" spent ...
OCEARCH, the largest shark-tagging and oceanic research organization in the world, will make an announcement Tuesday morning at JU after receiving "generous contributions" from the city and the state.
OCEARCH is launching its 47th expedition on April 1. It departs from Jacksonville, Florida and is scheduled to make its final docking in Charleston, South Carolina on April 21.
OCEARCH launched ‘Expedition Southeast’ this week in Mayport- its 46th shark research expedition. A groundbreaking is set for next year to open the nonprofit's global headquarters in Mayport.
OCEARCH’s most recent expedition has led to the tagging of CONTENDER, the largest male white shark ever tagged, sampled, and released by OCEARCH in the Western North Atlantic population. This ...
In 2012, Ocearch explorers tagged a great white shark named Mary Lee, who subsequently became a social media star as her movements were tracked up and down the East Coast. Fischer says Mary Less ...
Tracking Great White Sharks With Ocearch The Ocearch mothership is a 126-foot vessel that was once used for king crab fishing in the Bering Sea. Matt Boutet For the crew aboard the Contender and the ...
But Ocearch founder and expedition leader Chris Fischer believes the heightened fear is "statistically irrational." "I mean, you're talking about a handful of people - six people or so a year ...
Then, in February 2017, Ocearch partnered with Jacksonville University and its Marine Science Research Institute, to establish an institutional base. Chris Fischer is explorer-in-residence at JU ...