Mako swims 17,700 kilometres in one year
Dubbed Jiffy Lube2 by researchers, the 63-kilogram mako is making waves amongst scientists studying sharks. The shark swam 17,700 kilometres using a route that researchers at Nova Southeastern University had never seen before: looping the Atlantic twice, venturing north far north to Nova Scotia south to the Bahamas. “This is the only shark that’s made this double southerly migration,” said Mahmood Shivji, director NSU’s Guy Harvey Research Institute, which has tracked a total of 130 sharks since 2008.
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