It’s been so interesting to watch the tracks of the great white sharks that have been tagged by OCEARCH. The research team’s interactive Shark Tracker lets us see the movements and patterns of great whites around the world and off the East Coast.
Of course, I guess it’s worth remembering that we’re only actually seeing a handful of sharks in various parts of the world, and we’re only seeing the results of pings that determine their precise location.
Still, there’s plenty to here to capture the imagination.
Mary Lee — 16 feet long, 3400+ lbs. — was tagged in September 2012 off Cape Cod. Lydia — 14 feet, 2000 lbs. — was tagged in March 2013 off Cape Cod.
And both sharks appear to be regularly visiting waters along the Southeast coast.
Embedded via Facebook, here’s the most recent location for both Lydia and Mary Lee:
If you go to the shark tracker and look at their paths, you can see that the sharks’ ranges so far extend from Massachusetts to Florida and pretty far east into the Atlantic — out toward Bermuda or farther.
And here’s the latest from CBS about the tagging this week of great white Betsy, an immature female: