Over the past few years, researchers have marked, tracked and monitored sharks in New South Wales to notice their migratory patterns and behaviors.
Hammerhead sharks belong to marine life discovered on an active underwater volcano. Picture: Discovery Channel Source: Regional Media News
Forget the “Sharknado”, a real Sharkcan!
A new documentary, Sharkcano, premiered on National Geographic in July as a component of National Geographic’s Sharkfest, and explored sharks that live and hunt around underwater volcanoes in excessive situations that are appropriate for many other life forms.
Ocean engineer Brennan Phillips led a team in the remote Solomon Islands in search of hydrothermal activity. They discovered a lot of activity: sharks on an underwater volcano.
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Kavachi was created after an underwater volcanic eruption in May 2000, in the presence of CSIRO geologists. Picture: CSIRO Source: News Corp Australia
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The main peak of the volcano, called Kavachi, was not erupting on its expedition, so they were able to drop instruments and add a chamber at the top of the sea, inside the crater. The photographs revealed hammerhead sharks and silky sharks living inside, supposedly unaffected by temperatures and hostile acidity,” notes a summary on the channel’s YouTube site.
Brennan Phillips, Ph.D. Biological Oceanography. A student at the University of Rhode Island, he said in the video: “The concept that there are giant animals like sharks lurking and live the volcano caldera conflicts with what we know about Kavachi, that is, it explodes.
This hammerhead shark caught in shark nets in New South Wales last year. Others live on a volcano near the Solomon Islands. Image: Supplied Source: Supplied
Dr. Michael Heithaus of Florida International University, another member of the team, told Newsweek: “It’s not just about active volcanoes. This is the habitat they create in the middle of the ocean. Arrangement… If there had been no volcanoes in some spaces, there would be no reefs or land. This would mean that the shark species that want those habitats would not live in those spaces without the presence of a volcano.”
There are several cane sharks, opposite Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean. Dr. Heithaus digs up bull sharks by taking advantage of the turbulent waters, using them as a means to catch prey, as well as others near Guadalupe Island on the west coast of Mexico.
He told Newsweek that volcanoes supply nutrients to the ocean and attract fish, adding: “Where there is a lot of food, you tend to have a lot of sharks, if there’s not much fishing to decrease their populations.”
This article was originally published in the New York Post and reproduced with permission.