Three great white sharks have appeared off the Atlantic coast in recent days, according to a nonprofit that conducts research on the large predatory fish.
The tagged sharks have “pinged” off the Georgia and South Carolina coasts in the last 24 hours, according to OCEARCH.
Two pinged near Georgia on Tuesday night, WSB-TV reported. A shark named “Bob”, which weighs 1,300 pounds was located off the coast of St. Mary’s Island. Another adult great white named “Breton” pinged further out.
A juvenile great white named Anne Bonny, after the female pirate who marauded the Carribean in the 18th century, that weighs 425 pounds pinged near Charleston, South Carolina.
Bob and Breton were both initially tagged in Nova Scotia, Canada, OCEARCH said in a Facebook post. Anne Bonny was tagged in North Carolina.
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Capt. Chip Michalove, the owner of Outcast Sport Fishing in South Carolina, told Fox News Digital that many great white sharks typically leave the waters in the Gulf of Mexico and the southeastern U.S. to travel further north as far as Nova Scotia this time of year.
“It’s moving days,” he said. “Their diet is going to completely change. They’re going to go from chasing turtles and dolphins to now they’re going to start looking for seals.”
Only a small portion of the great whites are tagged, Michalove said. In recent years, researchers have started to figure out sharks’ migration routes and patterns because of technology used to monitor where they are in real time.
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