You may have read recently that there is a big project underway in Austrailia to tag sharks to learn more about them as well as protect people as well when they stray too close to beaches.

The Twitter feed of Surf Life Saving Western Australia – a non-profit group dedicated to beachgoer safety – is now being accessed regularly by GPS-tagged sharks that tweet their breed, size and location, alerting beachgoers to their presence.

The tweets are sent when one of more than 320 tagged sharks is identified by a monitoring system that sends an alert to Surf Life Saving Western Australia computers when the shark swims within about a kilometer of a beach.  What a great idea, and a wonderful use of technology.

There is also a really fascinating site to check out that shows where all the sharks from various places are now, and what their route has been since they have been tagged.  Check out www.ocearch.org/

If you want to find out more about whale sharks, visit https://www.calloutdoors.com/whale-shark-facts/