Wildlife and oceanographic surveys of the Bremer Marine Park

Wildlife and oceanographic surveys of the Bremer Marine Park. The Bremer Marine Park was sampled as part of a collaborative government funded program designed to provide critical baseline information on the presence of marine megafauna in the region and the potential physical factors affecting their distribution. Multiple sampling platforms were used, including visual transects conducted from the air (black), drifting underwater camera traps (known as stereo-BRUVS, dark blue), passive acoustic recordings (orange) and water profiles obtained from an autonomous deep-diving Seaglider (yellow). Large sharks (1), cetaceans (2) and molluscs (3) were among the species encountered within and outside the park boundaries.