11 Mar Great white surprise: the well-travelled shark
In March, 2013, the non-profit, open-source research organization, OCEARCH, caught a four-metre, 900 kg, female great white shark off the Atlantic coast of Florida near Jacksonville, then released it after attaching monitoring and tracking devices. In the year since, the shark has travelled 31,000 kilometres, visiting Cape Hatteras, Bermuda, George’s Bank, Placentia Bay, and the Grand Banks, before crossing the mid-Atlantic ridge to a point 1200 kilometres off the coast of Ireland.
In late October, Lydia, as the researchers nicknamed her. spent three days exploring Newfoundland’s Placentia Bay and Merasheen Island:
You can follow Lydia’s travels on OCEARCH’s interactive, live-tracking map. You can follow OCEARCH on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Here’s a video of Lydia’s capture and tagging.
The UK Telegraph has more on the story. H/T: Alexis Madrigal.