You can bet on a lot of things in Florida. Horses. Greyhounds. Jai Alai.
And sharks. You can now bet on sharks in Florida.
Nova Southeastern University, the Guy Harvey Research Institute, and the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation are putting on a shark race next month, and they’re inviting you to place your bets.
The Great Shark Race, which starts in April, breaks down into two divisions — the Mako Shark Division and the Oceanic Whitetip Division — and is monitored via satellite.
Businesses or people can sponsor a shark by purchasing a satellite tracking tag and then follow the race via Nova’s tracking website. The entry fee is a bit steep — $5,000 — but the winner gets a Florida Keys fishing vacation and bragging rights for having the fastest shark in all the land! …
The Great Shark Race will kick off on April 2, when makos will be tagged with monitors. The second leg of the race will get going in June, when they’ll tag the whitetip sharks. …
The shark in each division that ends up traveling the farthest in the next six months will be declared the winner.
But before the nation’s moral scolds descend on Florida to protest both animal exploitation and the willy-nilly expansion of gambling, they should know that it’s for a good cause. By expanding the number of sharks that get tagged, scientists will get “more in-depth information on the sharks’ movement patterns to better manage and conserve them,” the New Times’ Chris Joseph reports.
After spending the first 17 years of his Post career writing and editing, Matt and the printed paper had an amicable divorce in 2014. He's now blogging and editing for the Early Lead and the Post's other Web-based products.
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