SWEET SIXTEEN!!
Category: Research | Date: Mar 02 2008 | By: admin
We had nothing again yesterday which was day 12. One sighting but they didn’t manage to tag it.
We had a very nice BBQ at Simon’s in the evening. David played the guitar. We are really going to miss Brent when he leaves…We hope he will come back really soon!
Today is day 13. As I write this there are 5 boats out with a total of 44 people swimming with 5 different whale sharks. We have tagged 2 more today, bringing us to sweet 16. We’ve done it!! All the satellite tags are deployed, I can’t believe it!! Brent brought out 19 tags but he is not happy with the working quality of 3 so he will take them back to be serviced and fixed. We have put out 16 satellite tags and will now start with the streamer or ID tags. Expedition 2008 has been without doubt a success 
It is one the largest number of satellite tags to be put out on whale sharks in one place in history!
WE DID IT!!!
Julia is up spotting with Rob and she is clearly doing an amazing job. We have Rob in the gyro and Peter in the plane today. They report that there are whale sharks everywhere. I wish I was on the boat too. I guess you do too though so I am not alone! Here are 2 lucky people photographed by Mike the gyrocopter pilot last week.
I will update you later with the full report.
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3 Responses to “SWEET SIXTEEN!!”
Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL, on 02 Mar 2008
Congrats! Yep, I’d like to be there too, but not quite as close as these two in the photo are. Great work!
sheryl, washington dc, on 02 Mar 2008
Holy moly, they’re huge! Congratulations on meeting your goal.
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Lucia Cristiana, Brazil, on 02 Mar 2008
Gave what is known about this great living being, you are making History. Congratulations.
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