![]() ![]() ![]() The metre-and-a-half-long robot looks like a white missile with orange fins and a black nose cone. Using state-of-the-art technology - including underwater robots and airborne drones - t o shadow the sharks, scientists and safety experts are trying to figure out why the creatures are coming so close. But the head of the Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab says this summer, they're seeing something very different. "Typically in the past, when our waters get cold in the winter, those little sharks have migrated all the way to Baja ," says marine biologist Chris Lowe. Now, they're being spotted in growing numbers at some of the most popular beaches in the Los Angeles area. What the sharks were doing there nonetheless puzzled marine biologists. Southern California waters are a nursery for great whites in the eastern Pacific, but two-metre juveniles don't normally come so close to shore. "What else surprised me is how gentle they were," Hemerick says. Great whites can grow more than six metres long, but luckily for the two surfers, these sharks were just juveniles, which normally hunt bottom-feeders such as stingrays and aren't yet interested in eating mammals. Juvenile great white sharks are increasingly being spotted in the waters off Seal Beach, Calif. ![]()
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