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Travel Characteristics
Travel characteristics of tiger sharks vary, depending on whether they are searching for food or traveling for migratory purposes. These sharks may swim at the surface or travel to depths of 1,200 feet, according to the Aquatic Community website. They tend to cover more ground during the day than at night, and tend to come closer to the shore at night to catch fish and other prey that migrate toward the shoreline at night.
Tiger Shark Geography
Tiger sharks prefer temperate waters and travel around those areas that have it almost year-round. Florida is a common breeding ground for tiger sharks and they may travel as far south as South America. There is a nursing ground just off the coast of North Carolina and another on the Atlantic coast between Georgia and Daytona, Florida, states the Aquatic Community website.
Reasons For Travel
Like many aquatic animals, tiger sharks are migratory travelers. They've been known to cover long expanses of ocean, traveling from the North Atlantic to Africa and South America. While these sharks prefer the warm waters off the Florida coast, they've been found as far north as Canada, according to the Aquatic Community website. Some sharks have been known to stay in one area for their whole lives, while others were shown to have traveled more than 1,850 miles, according to the Shark Research website.
Tracking
To learn more about the ways in which tiger sharks travel and the areas of the world to which they migrate, numerous organizations track them. The type of tagging depends on the organization tracking the shark. For example, the Australian group Undersea Explorer uses satellite tracking for those tigers they are following. The sharks are captured briefly and painlessly and tagged on the dorsal fin to allow for satellite tracking.