James Anderson

James Anderson

Aug 21, 2015

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Thank You!

I just wanted to extend a big thank you from the three of us to all of you!

We're really, really grateful for your support and your generous contributions. You've made a really significant difference to this project, and we can't wait to get started. We will of course keep you all updated with what's going on as the project progresses, and we'll hopefully post some pics and videos here when we get in the water and start tagging animals.

In the mean time, I have been talking with a dive operator in Maui who dives on an aggregation of Scalloped Hammerheads regularly, usually a couple of times a week. In-fact, he's out there right now and I'm due to give him a call in an hour or so to go over a few things. I plan to head over to Maui for a day or two in the next few weeks to check out the site and get a feel for how we can best set ourselves up to get a couple of tags out.

In the meantime, I plan to keep campaigning on various fronts (hopefully including Experiment) to get more funds, so we can expand and develop the project some more. I will keep you all updated as I do, because support and help from you guys, particularly sharing the details of the project with others, is what's made this all possible.

So thank you all once again, and I hope to be in touch soon with updates and news!

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About This Project

Hawaii has a population of Scalloped Hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini), forming aggregations at specific sites. Yet our lab catches them rarely, has never tagged an adult female, so we know little of this populations' ecology. To learn more, we need a completely different approach to tagging these sharks. We're proposing to use Closed-Circuit Rebreather (CCR) technology to stealthily tag four individuals from S. lewini aggregations, using a modified pole-spear to equip them with satellite tags.

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