{"id":423881,"date":"2026-08-04T21:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423881\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:42:12","slug":"shark-surveillance-robot-could-help-lifeguards-spot-great-whites-in-real-time-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423881\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark-Surveillance Robot Could Help Lifeguards Spot Great Whites In Real Time: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The project brings together the CSULB Shark Lab, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and New York University&#8217;s Center for Robotics with funding from the Seaver Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as marine scientists continue tracking increased shark sightings and other tropical marine species in California waters during this year&#8217;s unusually warm ocean conditions. Experts stress, however, that encounters between sharks and people remain uncommon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, there have been 236 <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.data.ca.gov\/dataset\/shark-incident-database-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">documented interactions<\/a> between sharks and people off the California coast since 1950, compared with an estimated 120 million beach visits each year.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say the surveillance robot is designed to help lifeguards, scientists and beachgoers better understand when sharks are present, rather than discourage people from enjoying California&#8217;s beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The project brings together the CSULB Shark Lab, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and New York University&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-423881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}