Watch: Great White Attacks Underwater Robot
- 10 years ago
Researchers working with great white sharks on Guadalupe Island, Mexico sent a robot underwater to record the animals’ behavior. The robot ended up capturing footage of what it’s like to get hunted and eaten by the ferocious ocean predator.
Researchers working with great white sharks on Guadalupe Island, Mexico sent a robot underwater to record the animals’ behavior.
The robot ended up capturing footage of what it’s like to get hunted and eaten by the ferocious ocean predator.
Using a REMUS-100 robot equipped with six cameras, or SharkCams, the scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute recorded close up footage what it looks like to be eaten by a shark.
They tracked the movement of the sharks using acoustic tags to locate them, and dropped the robot into the water nearby.
The close up footage shows great white sharks biting the robot, and shaking it like prey.
Other footage shows a shark acting territorial.
Dozens of encounters with great white sharks were recorded by the sharkCams, along with several attacks.
According to the study, this is the first close up record of aggressive behavior from great white sharks, and it will assist experts who are learning more about the hunting strategies of sharks.
REMUS robots are versatile underwater vehicles that come in different sizes.
They were invented by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and can be outfitted with several kinds of underwater technology for a variety of monitoring studies.
Researchers working with great white sharks on Guadalupe Island, Mexico sent a robot underwater to record the animals’ behavior.
The robot ended up capturing footage of what it’s like to get hunted and eaten by the ferocious ocean predator.
Using a REMUS-100 robot equipped with six cameras, or SharkCams, the scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute recorded close up footage what it looks like to be eaten by a shark.
They tracked the movement of the sharks using acoustic tags to locate them, and dropped the robot into the water nearby.
The close up footage shows great white sharks biting the robot, and shaking it like prey.
Other footage shows a shark acting territorial.
Dozens of encounters with great white sharks were recorded by the sharkCams, along with several attacks.
According to the study, this is the first close up record of aggressive behavior from great white sharks, and it will assist experts who are learning more about the hunting strategies of sharks.
REMUS robots are versatile underwater vehicles that come in different sizes.
They were invented by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and can be outfitted with several kinds of underwater technology for a variety of monitoring studies.