Bizarre-looking shark resurfaces after trans-Atlantic trip

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It's the second-ever recorded observation of trans-Atlantic movement of the species. 9News

The series of fortunate events started in August 2014, when the shark was tagged with a satellite transmitter just off of Malin Head, a hotspot for basking sharks in the northeast Atlantic. After a few months, the device stopped transmitting data.

The photograph made the rounds in Europe, and when it reached the research teams, they noticed something astonishing: Attached to the shark's no-longer-functioning tracking device was a small, unmistakable gadget that the researchers had fashioned themselves as a buoyancy aid. At the time, this shark was the only one that was wearing the modified device. They realised that this was the same shark they had tagged nearly three years prior.

"Until that moment, we had never been able to follow the movement of a shark for more than, say, nine months or a year. So to understand its movements on a time scale of three years, on a different side of the Atlantic, that's completely changed the way we think," said Houghton.

 

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What an amazing photo!

Is it's name Monica?

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