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Swimming with Sharks for Science
  • [2015]
  • This article and recorded audo highlights the research conducted by Living Oceans Foundation science team member Dr. William Robbins as part of making the documentary Mysteries of the Coral Canyon.

This article and recorded audio highlights the research conducted by Living Oceans Foundation science team member Dr. William Robbins as part of making the documentary Mysteries of the Coral Canyon.

Swimming with Sharks for Science

Swimming with Sharks for ScienceRN Afternoons
November 13, 2015
By Michael Mackenzie

There are not many scenarios scarier than swimming with hundreds of extremely hungry sharks, but this is a situation Dr. William Robbins throws himself into quite willingly in the name of science.

Dr. Robbins’ latest research is the first to document the natural predatory behavior of grey reef sharks, and it is the subject of a new award-winning American documentary Mysteries of the Coral Canyon…

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