The strange bounding underwater "flight" of the mightiest fish in the oceans has been revealed for the first time through a remarkable scientific collaboration.
This secret life of the whale shark, the world's biggest fish, was recently disclosed in a scientific world-first by two Laureates of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise, Brad Norman, of Australia's Murdoch University, and Professor Rory Wilson, of Swansea University, in the United Kingdom.
In the Indian Ocean, off Ningaloo, on Australia's western coast, the team have equipped several whale sharks with a unique electronic device known as a "daily diary" that records in minute detail (eight times a second) the giant creatures' every action — speed, depth, pitch, roll and heading, as well as every beat of the fish's tail...[Seoul Times]
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