Post by LSDeep on May 5, 2006 19:08:48 GMT -5
now there is a adrenaline adventure, the shark might be still around ;D 
2:07 p.m. May 4, 2006
HILO, Hawaii – A California researcher is offering a $500 reward for a transmitter that was shed by a great white shark near the Big Island.
The 13-foot shark was cruising in waters off the windward coast of North Kohala on Sunday when it lost the satellite equipment that had been collecting data on its 2,500-mile journey from the Baja Peninsula.
The information could be valuable to understanding the rare appearance of the species in Hawaiian waters, said Michael Domeier, of the Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research in Oceanside.
“That is something I would love to better understand, but I just don't have a clue,” he said. “They're leaving a place that has got a lot of food for them. ... What they're doing in this warm tropical water, we just don't know.”
The low-power transmitter is designed to detach from the shark and float to the surface, where it uploads data to a satellite. Its antennae must be pointing straight up to function, Domeier said.
He believes the tag washed up on a remote coastal area and stopped transmitting Monday and could be between the bay at Waipio Valley and Paoakalani Island.
The male shark was one of a dozen that were tagged in December at Guadalupe Island off Baja, about 220 miles south of San Diego. The tagging is part of a major research project on the protected shark species that began in 1999.
Typically, sharks swim around Guadalupe Island until about February to feed on seals and sea lions. They often take off for the open ocean between the West Coast and Hawaii, where some linger in the deep water.
The great white shark that passed near the Big Island this week is the second tagged shark in the study to show up in Hawaii.
Domeier said one theory suggests the sharks may be arriving here to reproduce, noting that animals tagged farther north along the California coast followed a similar migration route.
“They seem to mix in these offshore and Hawaiian waters,” he said.
2:07 p.m. May 4, 2006
HILO, Hawaii – A California researcher is offering a $500 reward for a transmitter that was shed by a great white shark near the Big Island.
The 13-foot shark was cruising in waters off the windward coast of North Kohala on Sunday when it lost the satellite equipment that had been collecting data on its 2,500-mile journey from the Baja Peninsula.
The information could be valuable to understanding the rare appearance of the species in Hawaiian waters, said Michael Domeier, of the Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research in Oceanside.
“That is something I would love to better understand, but I just don't have a clue,” he said. “They're leaving a place that has got a lot of food for them. ... What they're doing in this warm tropical water, we just don't know.”
The low-power transmitter is designed to detach from the shark and float to the surface, where it uploads data to a satellite. Its antennae must be pointing straight up to function, Domeier said.
He believes the tag washed up on a remote coastal area and stopped transmitting Monday and could be between the bay at Waipio Valley and Paoakalani Island.
The male shark was one of a dozen that were tagged in December at Guadalupe Island off Baja, about 220 miles south of San Diego. The tagging is part of a major research project on the protected shark species that began in 1999.
Typically, sharks swim around Guadalupe Island until about February to feed on seals and sea lions. They often take off for the open ocean between the West Coast and Hawaii, where some linger in the deep water.
The great white shark that passed near the Big Island this week is the second tagged shark in the study to show up in Hawaii.
Domeier said one theory suggests the sharks may be arriving here to reproduce, noting that animals tagged farther north along the California coast followed a similar migration route.
“They seem to mix in these offshore and Hawaiian waters,” he said.