Ever wonder what those reality TV scientists do when they’re not being followed around by cameras and microphones? Real research, it turns out.The team of oceanographers that were the subjects of the History Channel’s “Shark Wranglers” have been turning some heads with a new GPS-powered shark tracking map they’ve developed. At a basic level, all Chris Fischer and his crew are doing is tagging great whites with tracking chips and then streaming their locations to a simple web-based map for the public to play with. (It’s actually sort of fun to find the sharks on the map and then contemplate taking your friends and family on a beach vacation nearby without telling them about the danger.) In practice, they’re actually breaking tons of new ground in shark research and hope that all of the data they’re collecting will help them better protect sharks in the future.Read the rest over at Motherboard.