I’ve posted several times about OCEARCH‘s tracking of great white sharks around the world — including along the East Coast of the U.S. One night, a 16.5 foot, 3,500 lb. great white named Mary Lee even turned up in the surf just off Jacksonville Beach.
Most recently, OCEARCH tagged Lydia off the Florida coast as part of Expedition Jacksonville, which has been chronicled on the organization’s Facebook page.
You can follow the action at OCEARCH’s Global Shark Tracker.
And researchers have now posted this gripping, not-for-the-squeamish video of the tagging of Lydia. Of necessity, catching, tagging, and releasing a massive great white shark is kind of a brutal process. I guess we can assume from the ongoing pinging of the tagged fish that the process does no lasting damage.