Global Shark Survey – Data Examples
It is really easy, to help sharks – First find your logbook.
When did you see a shark? How many hours underwater in the same area was it from seeing one shark to seeing the next.
Four items of information only – WHEN – WHERE – HOW MANY HOURS UNDERWATER – HOW MANY SHARKS
Example 1
Example on your holiday at one location (Malindi Kenya in Aug 2009)
arrive 4 dives – 1 shark seen – 8 dives later – 2 sharks seen – 5 dives depart
total dives = 4+8+5 = 17dives Total sharks = 3.
Example 2
Real data we received from one diver.
Brothers Red sea 2011 – 6 dives of 1h – 1 shark (grey reef) seen
Brothers Red sea – 2005 – 17 dives of 1h – 6 grey 1 leopard
Brothers Red sea – 1996 – 12 dives – too many to count – over 40 on each dive
What does this tell you? What about similar records from 4 divers or from 40! Could this data be used by shark NGO’s around the world to get better protection for The Brothers reef?
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For some places, we have a lot of data and if you sent us data in 2011 thank you very much.
For some locations we have very few observations. Please Help GSS to help the sharks.
If you dive the same place regularly – how many dives in one year, how many sharks?
Fantastic if you know what species of shark – even better if you have a photo (upload to Facebook )
Limitations
- Only dives in seawater.
- Only dives with visibility better than 5m.
- Not training dives because you were not looking for sharks!
PLEASE INCLUDE ALL DIVES AT THE PLACE – NOT JUST THE ONES WHERE YOU SAW SHARKS
Basic information
send us an email → Email here ← with where, when, how many hours underwater at the place, how many sharks seen
See example email data here
Best data to help us protect sharks
Please fill in the form → download the Microsoft spreadsheet 
sharkform4web.xls to complete and email.
Or the Open office version sharkform4web.ods to complete and email.
or send us an email → Email here ←
Like us on Facebook and upload your photos. please include Where & when
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