A great white shark that weighed 1,400 pounds and was 13 feet long was seen four times in one day off the coast of Florida.
According to data from OSEARCH, a global nonprofit that gathers data for research reasons, the huge adult shark, which is known as “Breton,” came to the surface four times on Thursday off of Daytona Beach.
After “pinging” for the first time at 10:51 a.m. on Wednesday, Breton did it again at 12:37 p.m., 3:55 p.m., 5:30 p.m., and 6:49 p.m. on Thursday.
OSEARCH says that when a tagged shark comes to the surface for a short time, a “ping” is recorded. The shark’s dorsal fin has a tag on it.
OCEARH says that Breton kept going west on Friday and Saturday, with his most recent ping happening in the Blake Plateau.
The tracker shows that Breton has gone about 139 miles in the past 72 hours.
Early in November, he left the coast of Newfoundland and went to Florida.
His profile says that he was the first shark to be tagged during OCEARCH’s Expedition Nova Scotia 2020. He was found in Cape Breton, which is where he got his name. He has gone more than 41,000 miles in the last four and a half years.
Breton is the fifth shark that OSEARCH has tagged at Scatarie Island in the two years that they have been working in the area. This suggests that white sharks may be able to get to the area without much trouble, according to OSEARCH.
Researchers told Fox 35 Orlando that North Atlantic great white sharks often leave the places they eat in the summer to go where the water is warmer and there are more food sources.
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