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The Joint Services Shark Tagging Team is a Tri-Service team of divers from the British Armed Forces. The team exists to provide manpower and resources for shark tagging and other marine conservation projects where diving skills are required. JSSTT expeditions operate under the Joint Services Adventurous Training scheme and are open to military and essential scientific personnel only. The team represents ‘Programa Restauracion de Tortugas Marinas’ (PRETOMA), a Costa Rican NGO specialising in shark and turtle conservation) in the UK.
The JSSTT has now tagged 50 sharks and placed 6 acoustic receivers in the Eastern Pacific with the aim of building an overall picture of shark movements in the across the Eastern Pacific Tropical Seascape and beyond. ?
The first expedition, EXERCISE JURASSIC SHARK, tagged 15 hammerhead sharks off Cocos Island, Costa Rica in July 2006. The second expedition, EXERCISE JURASSIC SHARK 2, took place in October 2008 and tagged a further 20 sharks (including 10 great white sharks) off Guadalupe and the Revillagigedo Islands (Mexico). EXERCISE JURASSIC SHARK 3 was the second JSSTT (Jurassic Shark) expedition to work in partnership with PRETOMA. The Jurassic Shark team was even more successful on this expedition, successfully tagging 13 Scalloped Hammerheads, 1 Black Tip, 1 Galapagos Shark and 12 green turtles.??
The JSSTT has now tagged 50 sharks and placed 6 acoustic receivers in the Eastern Pacific with the aim of building an overall picture of shark movements in the across the Eastern Pacific Tropical Seascape and beyond. ?
The first expedition, EXERCISE JURASSIC SHARK, tagged 15 hammerhead sharks off Cocos Island, Costa Rica in July 2006. The second expedition, EXERCISE JURASSIC SHARK 2, took place in October 2008 and tagged a further 20 sharks (including 10 great white sharks) off Guadalupe and the Revillagigedo Islands (Mexico). EXERCISE JURASSIC SHARK 3 was the second JSSTT (Jurassic Shark) expedition to work in partnership with PRETOMA. The Jurassic Shark team was even more successful on this expedition, successfully tagging 13 Scalloped Hammerheads, 1 Black Tip, 1 Galapagos Shark and 12 green turtles.??