HALIFAX (CANADA)-Great whites in Canada? Yeah for sure. Research group Ocearch is starting a research expedition next week in Nova Scotia, the east coast province of Canada. The researchers are looking for name suggestions for the sharks they find lurking in these cold waters. Ocearch is famous for tagging andContinue Reading
PARK CITY (USA)- Eleven sharks tagged by Ocearch.org have surfaced off the Atlantic coasts of the US states of South Carolina and Georgia in the past few days, sending their location information via satellite to the organization that tracks them. It’s a regular shark party!!! Great whites and tiger sharks Ocearch, a globally recognizedContinue Reading
RALEIGH (USA)- Amy Lee, a 3,500-pound great white shark has returned to the Carolina coastline. A ping from a satellite tag on the 16-foot-long shark showed she was just off the coast in Murrells Inlet last Friday morning. Since being tagged last September, researchers from Ocearch say Mary Lee has traveledContinue Reading
CHATHAM,(USA)- Less great white sharks seem to visit the waters off Cape Cod this year. That’s what the researchers of Ocearch learned. In 2012 they tagged 17 great whites. Only 3 of those have returned this year. Ocearch has started a Shark Search to learn more about these great predatorsContinue Reading
JACKSONVILLE (USA)- The first great white in the waters off the southern state of Florida was caught and tagged by Ocearch researchers. She weighs 2,000lbs, is 14ft 6in long and her Florida guardians have called her Lydia. The great white shark with the unassuming name was hauled on deck for 15Continue Reading
HAMILTON (BERMUDA)- Mary Lee, a 16ft, 3,456lbs great white shark, is a celebrity on the internet by now. Ocearch has been tracking the big fish since it was first tagged off the coast of Cape Cod (northeast coast USA) last September. Where the shark is swimming can be seenContinue Reading
SAN DIEGO (USA)- Scientists at Ocearch are tracking a big great white shark by gps off the eastern coast of the USA. They called her Mary Lee, after the mom of one of the researchers. She was tracked while swimming from Cape Cod to South Carolina and Georgia. See theContinue Reading