Interesting. Schmidt Ocean was founded by Wendy and Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) in 2009. This appears to be their only research vehicle at the moment. The boat was originally built in 1981 and was converted for research from 2009-2012.
How would we know that the difference between this being a place that the sharks have always migrated to versus this is just one place that has happened to escape large scale commercial fishing?
If there is one thing that nuclear testing sites, meltdowns, and DMZ thats mined all show is that animals tend to reclaim territory quite fast. Unless nearby areas are still heavily fished I doubt this place is the result of learned behavior.
In order to explain it I would instead look at reason why this place has stayed strong while other places has not. At that depth the ocean might not have been effected as much by changing temperatures, and there might be a better sustained eco balance.
Exactly what I thinking of. There is also a interesting episode from Discovery Channel Shark Week 2016’s “Nuclear Sharks", which describe the massive number of sharks at Bikini Atoll. To quote "Its nicely how things can recover so quickly. I think this is the last eden.".
NPR can't seem to see the elephant in the room here. It's as if their writers have never heard of deep-trawling or factory fleets. All we read is this:
>... build a case for why the White Shark Cafe should be officially protected by the U.N. cultural agency. UNESCO is considering recognizing and protecting it by making it a World Heritage Site.
So, UNESCO is going to go mano-a-mano against the PRC's "Coast Guard"?
Let's hope the shark fishing boats don't find this spot. There's still a sizeable market for shark fins in China, even after Yao Ming's brilliant campaign there.
I am, and I got that. Looks like they clearly want to punish visitors who don't want to be tracked, as they could have at least put some CSS on there. Still, Firefox reader mode for the win.
Interesting handling of the GDPR that the user gets a barebones page if he does not agree to tracking. The user gets the content, but the GDPR does not say he has to get the same pretty formatting. B)
Click on the "readability mode" or whatever you have in your browser (at least Firefox and Chrome have it) and you get a page that's even better formatted than whatever NPR would give you.
Firefox Reader Mode has some heuristic where it will not be available on certain pages. One way to improve readability in Firefox for all websites by default is to use the Language and Appearance section in Preferences to display all web pages using your chosen fonts and colors: Click on Advanced, select the fonts and font sizes you want, and unclick "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above." Then click on "Colors," select the colors you want, and under "Override the colors specified by the page with your selections above" choose "Always."
What I do with this is to set everything to inverse video (white-on-black) and small monospace fonts. Basically makes Firefox look like w3m.
https://schmidtocean.org/virtual-tour.html?cbll=37.80253,-12...
https://schmidtocean.org/virtual-tour.html?cbll=37.802447,-1...
https://schmidtocean.org/virtual-tour.html?cbll=37.802618,-1...