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11-foot, 1,200-pound great white shark tracked off Florida coast
A large, 11-foot-long, 1,200 pound nice white shark is being tracked off the coast of Florida as hundreds of spring breakers flock to the state’s seashores.
Named “Maple,” the feminine apex predator “pinged” on Monday morning southeast of St. George Island, Florida within the Gulf of Mexico, in line with OCEARCH’s International Shark Tracker.
For the final two winter seasons, Maple has spent a big portion of her time without work the gulf coast, the group mentioned.
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OCEARCH mentioned Maple may be recognized by a particular chunk wound on the left aspect of her physique, which they consider got here from a struggle with a good bigger nice white.
The group has been monitoring the shark since she was first tagged off the coast of Nova Scotia in September 2001. She will get her title from the Maple Leaf — one of many nationwide emblems of Canada.
In accordance with its web site, OCEARCH is a world non-profit that conducts “analysis on our ocean’s giants in an effort to assist scientists acquire beforehand unattainable knowledge within the ocean.”