Recreational divers - sharing the OceansIQ dream!

A few weeks ago, Alison and Adam gave a talk in South Africa at the Save Our Seas Shark Centre, which we wrote about here. We are very happy that Clare Lindeque, from Learn to Dive Today Dive Centre in Cape Town attended this talk. Clare has written a couple of great blog posts about the talk we gave and our research on sevengills. These posts feature great descriptions sevengills, our work and the importance of engaging local divers to assist in learning more about these amazing sharks.

We thank Clare for actively spreading information about seven gill sharks and our tagging program, and for promoting the Spot the Sevengill Shark Facebook page. 

We here at OIQ all started our affinity with the ocean as recreational divers or snorkellers  Let's face it, recreational diving is the reason we know anything about marine life at all!! 

As ongoing ocean observers, divers have always been in fantastic positions to bring attention to, care for and spread the word about marine life. With today's ease of underwater photography, divers can now add to this stewardship by joining scientists in identifying individuals though photo capture. Yay for citizen scientists!

Here are links:

Lecture: Adam Barnett & Alison Kock update on sevengill cowshark research in False Bay
Lecture: Adam Barnett on broadnose sevengill cowsharks

Thanks again for the posts, Clare, and keep on boosting people's Ocean IQ's!