Mote gets a whale of a visit

By Observer Staff
| 4:00 a.m. June 23, 2010

Longboat Key
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Mote Marine Laboratory scientists tagged three whale sharks from a group of 10 whale sharks that gathered June 18, approximately 23 miles southwest of Sarasota.

“People who have lived here 30 years have never seen anything like this,” said Dr. Robert Hueter, director of Mote’s Center for Shark Research. “Usually whale sharks come to our waters transiently in ones and twos. This time we had 10, and we stayed with them for four hours.”