3456lb Great White Shark 90 Miles Off Bermuda
[Updated] A 16 foot long 3456lb Great White shark is 125 miles off Bermuda, researchers said today. The female shark — named Mary Lee — is being tracked by OCEARCH, a non-profit organization ocean research group.
Mary Lee popped up 200 yards off Jacksonville Beach, Florida earlier year, prompting the researchers to alert local authorities. You can track “Mary Lee” here online .
Update Feb 19, 12.37pm: Mary Lee is now 90 miles off Bermuda
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Do not panic.She will not hang around,no seals here unless she can break into the Aquarium!
What a beautiful sight to see. It’s a good sign of a pretty healthy ocean.
My question is how do they know they weight of the shark? Did they take it out of the water weigh it then put it back? LoL. Its just based on its length I guess.
you can check out the video at youtube from when they caught her and tagged her
Good idea, we just stole it and added the video above. Thank you!
More than likely they take it out of the water…Duh!!!!!!! How else do you think they tag sharks!! don’t you watch TV!!
actually they did take her out of the water and weigh her
Ummm did you not read the article at all? it says they have been keeping track of it so that would mean that they have took the weight of the shark duhh.. use your brain before making comments
what u mean no seals there are tons of black seals at Goslings
Mary Lee http://sharks-ocearch.verite.com/ go here to keep track of her
@Come on Man!!! go to here online – in the story at top. You can see the pictures of it in the boat and the actual tag on the dorsal fin. Awesome!!
No worries! I don’t go in until it’s 80F! But glad to see her here! Hopefully she’s healthy and a sign that Bermuda water is clean and healthy too.
Oh NO!!!! Dat fackin shaaahk’s gonna be able to swin aroun herr and take oll ah jowbs for more den 6 yerrs. Um um Chris Furbert go gettya sper reddy..we bies ah goin sper-fishin! Dat fattin shahk aink takin my child’s jowb. No wey bie.
Dont worry bie. De shak aint got no work permut and brodda Kris will drown it wiff all the sewage from his mouff. So our chillins jobs is solid.
LETSS GO FISHING!!!
mi want finsssss
Now that we don’t have term limits the shark can stay looong as she wants. Leave her alone!
What an amazing creature! Very cool video and tracking information!
Lots of Shark Hash. You know those byes have all jumped in de boats going to see if they can catch it. $$$$
YAY!!!! Now we can feed the unemployed Bermudians!!! Lets go fishing guys
Wait hold on….but we’re not entitled, right??
SHARKS LIVE IN THE OCEAN PEOPLE!! Now if Mary Lee was seen shopping at Brown & Co. that’ll be news. SMH
She might pop up nonmariners dis year.
Now would be a great time for DREB to take a dip .
Nah, even sharks have taste.
Sharks are circling Bermuda…………
Feed it Lavern F, Betty T and Chris F. Thats enough toxin for any 3456 lb shark. It will have such a belly ache that it will swim as far away from Bermuda as it can….if it survives.
She came looking for all de plp that are jumping overboard!
MarTa ! Gite Me Harpoon!
These posts certainly are lighthearted. Good luck Sharky.
Just let me know if she gets any closer, thanks.
its ok he wont come inshore. warm water would killem quick
Peter, please read this found in Wikipedia. Great Whites can survive in warm waters.
WHERE THEY LIVE
Great white sharks live in the sea. They live near the coast, in all warm waters. They occasionally make dives into the deep water of open oceans. They can be in water as shallow as three feet deep, and as deep as 1,280 metres.
They may swim near:
• Western Atlantic: from Newfoundland to Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Northern Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Guadeloupe;
• East Atlantic: France, Senegal, Ghana, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Mediterranean: North Africa, South of France, West and South coast of Italy, Croatia, Malta, Greece, ;
• Indian Ocean: South Africa, Seychelles, Red Sea
• Western Pacific: Japan, Korea, China, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand;
• Central Pacific: Hawaii
• Eastern Pacific: from Alaska to California, and from Panama to Chile.
Research has shown that the sharks of northern California are genetically different to other shark populations. DNA evidence shows the population separated from other great whites about 200,000 years ago (during the Pleistocene Era) and they have not mixed again. By tagging the sharks they also learned that they are generally alone, but follow the same route through the ocean, and stay in the same places. From January to July they live near Hawaii, and then move to Californian waters between August and December.[1]
Can we tag a few humans and watch as they come our way – we need tourists of every kind from all over the world.
Maybe this shark will captivate people’s curiosity and they will think Bermuda is a spot close to the East Coast, so lets give it a try on our next holiday.
We can wish can’t we?
signed: Just Me
anyone want to buy a jet-ski cause I don”t think ill be using it anymore
Any updates bernews?
Any update? Looking at the tracker it is closer now…