Friendly Scuba Diving Club for Rotherham & Dearne Valley
Mission success on Tiree Tope Shark!!! 🦈 We successfully filmed multiple elusive Tope sharks on our camera rigs yesterday evening. After much planning, testing, and refining our setups, this is incredibly exciting news and a great reward for all the
Hundreds of Tope sharks were spotted in the bay last night by Tash and Prof. James via their drone! Nothing on our cameras as of yet. We did discover two of our cameras had moved, so we have rigged them
We got straight to work assembling and deploying our underwater camera setups to try and capture some Tope shark footage. We will retrieve and review them tomorrow! We also took a couple of eDNA testing kits into the water to
Our first day was about meeting, planning, and testing. We met with Prof. James Thorburn and Tash Yates and got some updates about what they’re up to and the Tope sharks, then headed out to test the location and our
Following on from Rob’s BBC interview, we’re also featured in the July/August edition of Aroundtown Magazine! It is great to see our upcoming Tiree conservation trip getting so much local support. 🦈🌊 📖 Read the full digital issue here: Rob