
Monterey Bay Aquarium, MBARI, SharkEye, Adobe Stock-boxerx
OCEAN SCIENCE Shark Tracking
W
hen scientists tracked great white sharks
to a mysterious mid-Pacific hangout, they
nicknamed it the White Shark Café — are they
eating, or meeting? What’s going on out there?
Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) researcher
Dr. Sal Jorgensen wanted eyes on the scene,
so he and engineer Thomas Maughan at sister
institution MBARI developed a Shark Café
Camera tracking tag with funding from the
Packard Foundation. Clamped to the dorsal
fin, it detects diving and chasing behaviors,
then triggers an off-the-shelf Sony Action Cam
to record video, and finally pops off and ...