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Float through the Great African Sea Forest… in 360° from your couch
Explore the Great African Sea Forest in our 360° virtual dive!
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The Travel Taste Trio
The Travel Taste Trio joined Cape RADD on a Snorkel for Science some weeks back. Here’s a vlog of their experience!
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Exploring Fin Spotter
In celebration of being allowed back on the beaches (to collect MORE data), let’s step back and take a look at some of the Fin Spotter data that we have collected so far!
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Fin Spotter
Fin Spotter is a shark monitoring platform from Cape RADD. We’re using citizen science and computer vision to identify individual shysharks in South Africa. By tracking their encounters, we can estimate their population size. Submit your photos today.
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GPU in WSL2! Machine Learning, AI, new projects and other nerding out.
Machine Learning in action for real-time underwater species idnetification!
Freediving
Learn to Freedive, and how to do other things good too.
Check out or YouTube channel for the latest adventure and tutorial videos on freediving and marine science.
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FREE Self Quarantine online courses: Learn R!
In this self quarantine video we introduce aspiring marine biologists to the basics of R and RStudio. The course covers some introduction to what R is and why you should use it, common operators, objects, and functions, and the different data structures native to R. The course then provides some basic examples of data exploration, visualization and analysis.
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Global Shark Hotspots Threatened
Even the remotest parts of the ocean appear to offer highly migratory sharks little refuge from industrialised fishing fleets, a ground-breaking study published in the journal Nature reports.
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Thinking about an Internship? Try a Field Course!
Interns Anonymous My name is Dylan, and I was an intern. I once paid money to participate in an internship. I admit it. The promise of working with great white sharks drew me in, hook, line, and sinker. You know the ones; they promise to be conducting ground breaking research, Read more…
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Let’s get nerdy: The Windows Subsystem for Linux
A how to on running RStudio and QGIS on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux)