Ep 1 | Dr Chris Lowe - Shark Lab CSULB | Shark Behaviour, Science and Risk | Crossing the Tideline

For over 27 years, Dr Chris Lowe has been studying Great White Sharks on the beaches of California - one of the most densely populated coastlines in the world. As director of the Shark Lab at Cal State Long Beach, his team uses drones, acoustic tagging and underwater cameras to track juvenile white sharks that spend their days metres from swimmers, mostly unnoticed.What they've found might surprise you. Sharks and people are sharing the water far more often than anyone realised, and bites remain extraordinarily rare.Brett sits down with Chris to unpack what the data actually shows: why juvenile whites behave the way they do, how California manages shark presence on public beaches, what research into shark hearing tells us about why attacks are so infrequent, and what Australia might learn from a system that has been doing this longer than anyone.It's a conversation that raises as many questions as it answers, and that's the point.