Great White Sharks – Savannah Unplugged http://www.billdawers.com Mon, 06 Jan 2014 23:38:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 18778551 Great white sharks take a Georgia holiday http://www.billdawers.com/2014/01/06/great-white-sharks-take-a-georgia-holiday/ Mon, 06 Jan 2014 23:32:38 +0000 http://www.billdawers.com/?p=6565 Read more →

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I’ve been following the story of OCEARCH and its study of great white shark behavior for a while now, but I missed the Christmas Eve news about Mary Lee — a 16-foot, 3400 pound great white — swinging by Tybee Island on Christmas eve.

Check out Mary Landers’ piece in the Savannah Morning News: Great white sharks visited Tybee for holidays

And here’s some embedded media (all from a week to two weeks old) not only about Mary Lee, but also about Katharine and Genie:

Post by OCEARCH.

Post by OCEARCH.

Post by OCEARCH.

The OCEARCH Shark Tracker is pretty interesting.

]]> 6565 OCEARCH tracks great white sharks Mary Lee and Lydia near Georgia coast this week http://www.billdawers.com/2013/08/17/ocearch-tracks-great-white-sharks-mary-lee-and-lydia-near-georgia-coast-this-week/ Sat, 17 Aug 2013 16:29:57 +0000 http://www.billdawers.com/?p=6074 Read more →

]]> 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:

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