# How do you save a shark you know nothing about?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxDublin
- Speaker: Simon Berrow
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_berrow_how_do_you_save_a_shark_you_know_nothing_about)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

They're the second-largest fish in the world, they're almost extinct, and we know almost nothing about them. In this talk, Simon Berrow describes the fascinating basking shark ("great fish of the sun" in Irish), and the exceptional -- and wonderfully low-tech -- ways he's learning enough to save them.

## Lectures

1. [How do you save a shark you know nothing about?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/simon_berrow_how_do_you_save_a_shark_you_know_nothing_about/3a5e1179d0ad), 17 min (TED's player)