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Great White Shark Attacks: It’s Not Personal

With great white sharks, it’s not personal. If they see you swimming on the surface of the water, they’ll probably think you’re a seal or a sea lion, and you just represent the next meal in their lifelong food chain. That’s the conclusion of a new study just published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface that explored the theory that many great white bites, particularly juvenile great white bites, are simply a case of mistaken identity. “These are not mindless killers, but we just happen to look like their food,” said Dr. Laura Ryan, of Macquarie University in…

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Great White Shark Bites Boat’s Motors off Tampa

A great white shark took a bite out of the outboards on a SeaVee 34 in the Gulf of Mexico about 65 miles southwest of Tampa last week. The shark also tried to bite the boat itself. “It was breathtaking,” Erika Almond told FOX 13 in Tampa. “It came right up and took a chunk out of one of our motors.” She said the shark, about 14- to 16-feet long, approached the boat cautiously, looking for something to eat, before it started biting into the motors and the hull. “We couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” she said. Almond has…

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Largest Great White Sharks Swimming Down Atlantic Coast

Some of the largest great white sharks ever tagged have been getting a lot of attention in the past few days from Florida to New Jersey. Heading south, like a snowbird, Unama’ki, the second largest great white ever tagged by OCEARCH, the large marine animal research organization, was swimming along the Florida coast from Vero Beach to Key Largo. Unama’ki (pictured above) is 15 feet, 5 inches long, and weighs more than 2,000 pounds. The researchers think she may be heading for the Gulf of Mexico, where she spent much of last winter. OCEARCH has tagged about two dozen great…

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New Study: Great Whites Like Shallow Water on Cape Cod

The next time you go to Cape Cod, you may want to stay on your boat. New studies show that great white sharks spend half their time there swimming in water less than 15 feet deep, hunting for seals to eat. That behavior, of course, puts them in the same water as human swimmers and surfers. And the number of sharks swimming in those waters is staggering. A research buoy close to shore off North Truro detected 70 individual sharks last summer. One off Nauset Beach in Orleans recorded 69; Eastham, 62. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, a non-profit organization…

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Can a Great White Shark Help Solve a Crime?

Here’s a great story  on Fitsnews.com about how a Hilton Head, South Carolina, shark fisherman hopes to use publicity from the great white shark he just caught and tagged to solve the 2016 hit-and-run death of a 14-year-old year old girl named Grace. Massive 2,800-lb. Great White Shark Caught Off Of Hilton Head – Could It Help Solve A Crime? You never know what’s lurking off the SC coast.. By  Mandy Matney Could a South Carolina great white shark help the Highway Patrol solve a crime? Hilton Head Island’s great white shark whisperer is giving it his best shot. Chip Michalove, a famous fisherman who has hooked…

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Great White Sharks Gather Off Carolinas; More Coming

A group of great white sharks is swimming off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, according to the shark research organization Ocearch, including a giant that’s 15 feet and 5 inches long and weighs 2,076 pounds. And Ocearch says that more are on the way. The concentration of great whites is part of their migration south each fall in search of warmer water. Ocearch says it tracked ten great whites off the Carolinas in the past few weeks. It tags the sharks with GPS trackers that ping when sharks surface. The non-profit organization says the coast from North Carolina to…

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Picture of Great White Shark Near Surfer Goes Viral

Here’s a picture of a great white shark surfacing near a surfer on Cape Cod that went viral. The surfer, Devon Zimmerman, from Brooklyn, New York, told the Daily News that when he saw the shark “I was like, ‘Oh my God,’ in my mind this thing’s real. And it’s between me and the beach.” Fortunately, the encounter, off Nauset Beach in Orleans, had a happy ending. The great white slowly swam away and Zimmerman paddled nervously back to shore. But when his wife, Sarah McAteer, saw the picture, she said, “It made me nauseous. It made me sick to…

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Three Cape Cod Beaches Closed Briefly Due To Great White Shark Sightings

Updated: 6:05 PM EDT Jul 13, 2019 BARNSTABLE COUNTY, Mass. — Three Cape Cod beaches were closed for periods Saturday afternoon after sharks were spotted swimming 50 yards offshore. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, the first great white sighting happened at 1:40 p.m. off Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro. The shark was spotted 50 yards offshore and was heading south. Swimming was closed at Head of the Meadow and nearby Coast Guard Beach for an hour. Swimming was closed at Head of the Meadow and nearby Coast Guard Beach for an hour. Truro Recreation@TruroRecreation…

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Was Cabot, the Great White Shark with a Twitter Account, Ever in Long Island Sound? “Hello, Greenwich”

At first, the story was just too good to ignore. Cabot, a ten-foot-long great white shark, had been tracked swimming in Long Island Sound off Greenwich, Connecticut. OCEARCH, the organization that tracks marine life and that had tagged Cabot off Nova Scotia in October, said that Cabot’s tracker had pinged there, and that it was the first time they had traced a shark to the Sound. OCEARCH also created a Twitter account for Cabot, a “sub-adult’ weighing about 533 pounds. “Hello Greenwich,” Cabot Tweeted. “How are you today?” The media frenzy was immediate, and worldwide. The Daily Mail in London…

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Miss Costa, a 1,668-pound Great White Shark and Social Media Star, Takes Spring Break in Gulf of Mexico. Tweets: “Pure Bliss”

Miss Costa, a prolific 12’ 5” great white shark with a sizeable social media following, is taking her annual spring break in the Gulf of Mexico, cruising down the Atlantic from Nantucket, Massachusetts. And she’s tweeting about it. Miss Costa is being tracked by OCEARCH, the ocean research organization that originally tagged her on September 23, 2016, off Nantucket, and which created a Twitter account for her; the 1,668-pound shark now has 9,500 Twitter followers. A few days ago, as Miss Costa swam up the Gulf toward the Florida Panhandle, she tweeted: “gulf life = pure bliss.” Earlier, when she…

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