{"id":968906,"date":"2026-11-13T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/968906\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:00:13","slug":"just-keep-swimming-shark-expert-tags-largest-fish-on-the-planet-off-new-england-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/968906\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Just keep swimming.&#8221; Shark expert tags largest fish on the planet off New England coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Placing a tag on the largest shark on the planet might seem like a daunting task but marine scientists have perfected the task.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow do you place a temporary \u2018spot tag\u2019 on a whale shark?\u201d writes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/how-do-you-place-a-temporary-spot-tag-on-ugcPost-7499858582121750529-inKc\/?utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_medium=android_app&amp;rcm=ACoAAATlLdgBE0rfqlEZ8KWcEJN_xWinagOhtX8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>. \u201cThe answer is simple: just keep swimming, just keep swimming.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To keep up with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/fish\/facts-about-whale-sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whale sharks<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which can travel at around\u00a0three miles an hour\u00a0\u2013 the scientists must be strong swimmers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the video, MIT-WHOI grad student\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jaidaelcock.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaida Elcock<\/a>\u00a0can be seen diving below the surface of the water and attaching a tag to the huge animal\u2019s dorsal fin. This will give the scientists data on where the shark swims as it makes its way through the ocean. <\/p>\n<p>See the whale shark being tagged off the coast of New England. Credit: Jaida Elcock\/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers hope the information they glean will help them understand why the sharks visit the continental shelf off the coast of New England, USA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tag is programmed to release on its own after a while. \u201cEach tag carries a built-in radio transmitter, so once it pops off, Elcock and her team can track it down and retrieve the data,\u201d explains WHOI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More amazing wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top image: whale shark tagging. Credit: Jaida Elcock\/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Placing a tag on the largest shark on the planet might seem like a daunting task but marine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":968907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-968906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}