Great White Shark Tracked From Canada To Florida Keys

Miami FL

01 February, 2022

11:56 AM

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FLORIDA KEYS — A female great white shark named Sable has been tracked from Canadian waters all the way to South Florida. OCEARCH Shark Tracker, a global non-profit organization that helps scientists collect ocean data, began following the juvenile shark, who is 11.5 feet long and weighs about 807 pounds, in September. Her first ping came Sept. 13 off Nova Scotia. Sable is the 76th shark sampled, tagged and released in OCEARCH's Northwest Atlantic White Shark Study and the third of Expedition Nova Scotia 2021. She was named after the Sable Island National Park Reserve, which is about 180 miles off Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she was initially tagged, according to OCEARCH. Since September, Sable has been making her way south along the Gulf Stream. On Jan. 23, she was tracked off Vero Beach, Florida. Her latest ping came Sunday night off the Florida Keys in Carysfort Reef. She's had a long journey since she was first tagged by scientists, traveling 2,706 miles in 85 days, according to OCEARCH. Watch this video of Sable being tagged and released by researchers: