Scientists fixed tags equipped with cameras onto tiger sharks so that they could view the ocean floor from a new perspective. What they saw was astounding.
The largest apex predator in the tropical seas, tiger sharks are notoriously fierce. They can grow to more than six meters , have sharp serrated teeth and are second only to great whites in number of reported attacks on people. But in The Bahamas, tiger sharks have taken on a rather less ferocious role, as assistants to marine scientists. Between 2016 and 2020, a team of researchers fixed tags equipped with cameras onto tiger sharks so that they could view the ocean floor from a new perspective.
So we did that and we were able to map it out. We put divers in the water to validate all the predictions from space, we took pictures ourselves of the sea floor, and we then used more data from tiger sharks, including 360-degree camera tags that gave us a full comprehensive look at what the animals were seeing. It ended up validating a prediction of up to 93,000 square kilometers of seagrass ecosystem here in The Bahamas, which makes it by far the largest on Earth. It was hiding in plain sight.
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