The Thirty Third of my Fourth donations goes to OCEARCH. OCEARCH is a non-profit, data-centric organisation built to help scientists collect previously unattainable data in the ocean.
You may have seen footage of them tagging and taking samples from huge sharks on a specially made submersible (and raiseable) pontoon:
OCEARCH is recognized as a world leader in generating scientific data related to tracking (telemetry), and biological studies of keystone marine species such as great white sharks, tiger sharks, and more. OCEARCH has embarked on 39 ocean research expeditions as of September 2020.
Their mission is to accelerate the ocean’s return to balance and abundance, through fearless innovations in scientific research, education, outreach, and policy using unique collaborations of individuals and organisations in the United States and abroad.
Definitely worth checking out their YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/OCEARCHsharktracker/featured
OCEARCH maintain a free open-sourced Shark Tracking service so you can see where individual sharks are in the world and how far they travel! This allows scientists, educators, and fans alike to learn about the never before documented movements of our ocean’s apex predators.
Details of their 2021 expedition can be found here:
For questions or more information, please email them at info@ocearch.org
They take donations in US Dollars so I used XE.com to provide the spot rate for currency conversion.
Help protect sharks; facts not fear!
