Equipped with a camera, turbines and a painted anxious stare, Kenny — a decoy seal made from cork and aluminium — is a Quebec research team’s secret weapon this summer.
The figure was designed with one goal — to attract sharks near Brion Island in Quebec’s Magdalen Islands and enable researchers from the St. Lawrence Shark Observatory to tag the great white sharks populating the waters.
“Within the last five years there have been more sightings and more and more people that have started to speak about that,” said Marc-André Gaudreau, mechanical engineering professor at Université du Québec in Trois-Rivières.
Alongside two of his
