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Have you ever wondered where sharks swim?
I don’t mean ‘the ocean’, and there is no punchline here.
Shark Tracker allows you to see the recent location of tagged sharks, and where they have been on their travels
I just wonder if sharks ever just get bored and decide to go off swimming somewhere else.
Now, it’s possible for you to answer these questions thanks toSharkTracker.
Its premise is simple: it tracks sharks.
Shark Tracker allows you to see the recent location of tagged sharks, and where they have been on their travels
And sharks are cool.
Arguably, they are cooler than airplanes.
The app is powered byOCEARCH, a global non-profit organization researching sharks and other key marine species.
Shark Tracker is also available on the OCEARCH website. Here we can see the journey of Ali, a whale shark as she swims around the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.
Swimming with sharks
Incredibly, OCEARCH provides this as an open-source shark tracking service.
The app is free to download for iOS and Android and can be found online at theOCEARCH website.
All the tracking data can be accessed for free.
These Z-Pings are reasonably common; full-location pings are rare.
There was a Z-Ping from Ormond a week ago, so he is still swimming around somewhere.
There is something grounding about taking in the sheer distances that the creatures travel.
