Reuters: New iPhone app lets users follow roaming great white sharks
(Reuters) - The great white shark is lurking in cyberspace, in the form of an iPhone application launched this week that allows users to track a dozen of the predators as they roam around the Pacific Ocean.
The California-based Marine Conservation Science Institute launched the app, which the nonprofit describes as the first shark tracker of its kind, to raise funds for its research. ...
... The application, launched at iTunes on Wednesday, cost nearly $100,000 to produce, he said. Included in that budget was video content and a game for children to learn about great whites.
The institute has tagged more than 20 great white sharks, but the batteries on some of the tags expired, Domeier said. The iPhone application allows users to follow the migration of a dozen sharks the institute is still following, he said ...
One of the benefits of this apps is intended to swimmers in the beach and they can track that there has a shark approaching but the downside of it is some illegal fisherman or hunters because in this kind of app it will be easy for them to track sharks and get their fins to sell it and to become shark's fin soup.
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