This week has been highly successful with respect to shark tagging. All students were able to aid in shark tagging that took place on two separate days of catching and tagging sharks. Image below shows HMC student Yoo-Jin Hwang measuring a recently caught nurse shark after she and team we able to position the shark in a state of "tonic immobility" (upside-down).
Two types of tags were embedded in the shark: 1) an acoustic transmitter tag that emits acoustic signals at pseudo-random intervals, and 2) PIT (passive integrated transponders) tags that can be used to identify the shark if re-caught later.
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