Diary

In march, I was in the wonderfull national park of Malpelo 500km offshore of Colombia.
I was hired to tag hammearhead sharks for a research project initiate by Fundacion Malpelo.
The opperations were supervised by Sandra Bessudo, director of the park and Dr Peter Klimley, the famous shark specialist of UC Davis. Responsibles from Galapagos park and Coco Island were present too.
19 sharks were taged while freediving with accoustic or satelitte tags thanks to a Teak-Sea speargun.
The listening station are now collecting datas and the the satelitte tags are programed to surface during the next 9 months.
This project is highly important for the protection of the sharks and of the Pacific ecosystem in general.
All the opperations were filmed in HD by cinemarine team.

Arrival in Malpelo on the Maria Patricia.

Setting up the tags, James Ketchum (left), Dr Peter Klimley and Sandra Bessudo.



The tags...



A big female



Schooling hammerheads