{"id":438,"date":"2016-08-25T08:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T07:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/?p=438"},"modified":"2016-10-24T13:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T12:40:42","slug":"mighter-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/mighter-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pen is Mightier&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><h5>Activity Trackers On Sharks: Building the Observation Pen<\/h5>\n<p><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/179715879?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>As part of our ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/activity-trackers-sharks\/\">project on lemon sharks in St Joseph Atoll<\/a>, we observe captive sharks\u00a0for a brief\u00a0time to collect baseline data. Thus, we built a tidal pen to hold a single shark for observation. In an\u00a0afternoon&#8217;s work, four of us (<em>Minion<\/em>, the boat, is a crucial member of the team) constructed a\u00a0115 m<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0three-sided pen, which is roughly the size of four American parking spaces. The dropping tide reveals\u00a0a sandy cay that provides a natural barrier, therefore closing the pen. Accordingly, there is enough space for the shark to comfortably swim and for us to record various changes in speed, direction and depth to\u00a0ground truth back at the lab.<\/p>\n<p>Why build a pen to observe captive sharks? For the sake of accurate data, it\u2019s important that we observe the sharks as they recover from being captured and by the same token as they return to normal behavior. 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