07/27/2026
Happy Shark Week! 🦈🤖
One of the coolest parts of my career has been building the technology that lets us study sharks without ever putting a diver in the water with them. I co-invented the REMUS SharkCam — an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to track and swim alongside great white sharks, filming natural hunting and social behavior for the very first time. That research became the backbone of 7 shows across Discovery Channel and National Geographic.
Cape Cod, right in our backyard, is one of the best natural laboratories for this kind of work — the shallow shoals off Monomoy and the outer beaches draw one of the largest seasonal white shark populations on the East Coast, following the recovering gray seal population.
Robots like SharkCam are changing what we know about these animals — and how we protect them.
All footage and research shown are the property of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ()