Tracking Great White Sharks & Their Ill-Understood Migrations - Chris Fischer

When people think of Great white sharks, the music from Jaws begins playing in their head. Chris Fischer founded OCEARCH to investigate the migratory patterns and behaviors of sharks around the world. The first step is to catch a shark and pull it aboard the ship, where a team of researchers work to attach satellite tags as well as collect information on the shark from mouth bacteria samples to external parasites. So far the team has learned Great white sharks in particular travel much more than expected, and visit ocean regions which were thought to be too cold for the sharks to survive. OCEARCH also released the Global Shark Tracker App which allows the public to access real-time data of the locations of different sharks Fischer has tagged, helping to "shift the conversation around sharks" to one of curiosity instead of fear.