Meet L-Town, a male great white shark that was recently detected off the coast of San Francisco. At 4 meters long (13 feet) long and 800 kilograms (1,765 pounds), L-Town is actually one of the smaller members of Shark Net, a new iPhone/iPad app that allows users to follow the Pacific’s greatest predators as they travel the oceans traversing a network of acoustic receivers.
“I realized we have one of the wildest places on Earth here in our own backyard,” says Stanford University marine sciences professor Barbara Block. “We have all these predators, but nobody can see them.”
To read the original article: Stalking Sharks | The Scientist
