- Shark-detecting buoys were deployed off both coastlines.
- They’ll send out an alarm, allowing officials to notify swimmers about the shark’s existence.
- Increasing shark sightings off the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts have been a matter of discussion among regulators, beachgoers, and scientists.
For the first time, marine scientists have installed buoys to detect sharks in real time off the coast of Maine.
Shark-detecting buoys deployed off both coastlines to determine where sharks may come into touch with swimmers. In recent years, they employed off the coasts of California and Massachusetts from a very long time
According to WCSH-TV, students from the University of New England and a scientist from the Maine Department of Marine Resources have planted such a buoy off Old Orchard Beach. Another is proposed for Phippsburg, near Popham Beach.
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The buoys, however, intended to detect the presence of white sharks that have been tagged. They’ll send out an alarm, allowing officials to notify swimmers about the shark’s existence.
There have been two fatal shark bites off the coast of New England. Increasing shark sightings off the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts have been a matter of discussion among regulators, beachgoers, and scientists. A shark conservation organization and the New England Aquarium are also collaborating to collect more data on sharks.
