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Great hammerhead sharks are extremely evolved predators. The placement of their eyes on either side of the cephalofoil provide them with a nearly 360 degree range of vision, with only a slight blind spot directly in front of them.
Their cephalofoil is wide and flat, evolved for detecting and pinning prey on the seabed. They are incredibly fast, extremely agile, and able to preform quick tight turns which makes them formidable predators to animals such as stingrays and eagle rays.
Bimini is the only place in the world documented to have the same individual great hammerhead sharks returning annually for over a decade. Every opportunity we spend with them in the water is an opportunity to learn.
We watch and record their behaviour, their use of or reserve of energy, body language, food consumption, new scars or injuries, healing of injuries, etc - all of which can ultimately help with conservation here in the Bahamas and globally.
