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A high-tech, autonomous ‘SharkCam’ has been used in coastal waters off the UK to reveal the hidden lives of basking sharks.
Little is known about the world’s second largest fish – despite being prevalent in the waters off the west coast of Scotland. Suzanne Henderson, marine policy officer at Scottish Natural Heritage , said: ‘These giant fish are spectacular and watching them feed gracefully at the sea surface is such a special and memorable experience.‘This year’s collaboration has allowed us to use a combination of camera technologies and given us a glimpse of basking sharks’ underwater behaviour – a real first and very exciting.
Dr Lucy Hawkes, part of the basking shark tagging team at the University of Exeter, searching for basking sharks in the waters around the Isle of Mull.
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