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Nicole's Odyssey Across the Indian Ocean

- The first known transoceanic trip for any shark species, as reported by Bonfil et al. (2005) in the October 7 issue of Science

‘Nicole’, a ca. 3.8 m female great white shark (named in honor of actress and white shark enthusiast Nicole Kidman) was fitted with a pop-up archival tag in Gansbaai, Western Cape, South Africa, on November 7, 2003. Almost 4 months later on February 28, 2004, the tag popped up just 3 kilometers from the coast of Western Australia. This remarkable trip demonstrated what powerful swimmers white sharks are, and that female white sharks do indeed move between two of the most important white shark populations in the world. Nicole returned from Australia to the same exact bay where it was originally tagged only 9 months after being tagged.

The study, which was a collaboration between the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the South African Department of Environmental Affairs & Tourism, the White Shark Trust, the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town, provided essential information to enhance the management and conservation status of threatened white shark populations in the regions via an improved understanding of species distribution patterns (for more details see: http://wcs.org/greatwhitesharks.)

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"A Great White Shark's Journey"

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