Salty, a great white shark, gets around. He was tagged swimming off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in August, 2012. Now he’s been photographed swimming with some freedivers off Jupiter, Florida, where he was identified by shark experts who saw his picture on the internet.
Salty was last seen by a group of friends who were spearing fish in about 60 feet of water off Jupiter. They were diving off a local wreck, and one of them had just speared a cobia. The shark wasn’t particularly interested in the cobia or the divers, they said. It was just swimming big loops around the wreck.
One of the divers, Tommy Allore, got his underwater camera off their boat and dove down to take pictures. He told Treasure Coast Newspapers that he was “half expecting the shark to be gone when we dropped back down, but when we got back the shark was still there.”
After Allore posted his pictures on the internet, shark experts identified the great white as Salty from its size and markings. Read more:
