| Porthole 03 Nov 22

THEY’RE not quite laser beams, but perhaps the next best thing – tiger sharks in the Bahamas have been fitted with special cameras on their backs to map the “world’s biggest seagrass meadow”.

A research report published this month in the Nature Communications scientific journal details the project which saw seven of the denizens of the deep captured, equipped with the special swivelling devices on their dorsal fins, and then released.

Radio beacons transmitted the results to the scientists from non-profit environmental group Beneath The Waves, who said proof of the massive undersea growth gathered by the swimming sharks “should give us hope for the future of our oceans” because of its potential to store carbon.