In early March, two months before Falkor departed for the same mission, two saildrones were deployed from San Francisco. "Just as we predicted, the sharks showed up right in the cruise box," Block added. Sure enough, the animals were indeed swimming to this remote place, which the researchers have nicknamed the "White Shark Cafe." "There's a lot of expectation when you put technology on an animal and then you take an expensive ship like the Falkor with 40 people to a box in the middle of the ocean and expect that these white sharks are going to be there," Block said, speaking from the ship. Then this spring, the research team set off on a state-of-the-art ship called the research vessel Falkor toward the mysterious area, hoping to find the sharks they tagged. They've even given them names, such as Eugene, Tilden and Leona. They've already gotten to know some of these animals from years of research. To find out, the scientists tagged over 30 great white sharks last fall - more than they had ever done in a single season. "We wanted to know if there was a hidden oasis that was formed by the currents that we couldn't see from space," Block said. The mystery of what was drawing the sharks to this strange place set new research into motion.
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