Sharks wearing GoPro cameras have provided researchers with stunning video of the huge underwater kelp forests off the southern coasts of Africa—and they’ve also punctured a long-held belief that sharks avoided the kelp.
Researchers at Australia’s Murdoch University shared the belief that Cape seals took refuge in the dense kelp because the sharks would not follow, but it turns out the sharks just plunge on in. Previously, it was believed the sharks only hunted while the seals were moving between rocky outcrops.
The cameras, aimed to match what the eight sharks saw, provided one to three days of video before falling off or being shaken off, or knocked off by kelp fronds. Here’s video from one of the sharks, captioned in Italian with English sub-captions.
