"Here lies the body of Mary Lee
died at the age of a hundred and three
For fifteen years she kept her virginity
not a bad record for this vicinity."
--Quint
Posted on 05/06/2015 6:50:20 AM PDT by Hatteras
(WTNH)– A great white shark weighing almost 4,000 lbs. named Mary Lee is getting lots of attention after she was tracked swimming in a bay near Maryland and Virginia.
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Cool.
Looks like they finally got a bigger boat.
“Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women.”
Amazing animals. That’s an incredible amount of traveling they can do.
MD jaws ping.....
It’s amazing (and a bit scary) to see how close to shore, and in some of the sounds and estuaries these sharks go.
16 feet is not that big for a GWS. There are hammerheads and tigers that dwarf that.
Gosh, I hope she and her kin are FAR away at pony-penning time on Chincoteague. They swim those ponies through the water and I would hate to think a big great white like this one would grab one for herself.
Lawyers are safe, though, sharks won’t attack them, Professional Courtesy.
True but I still would want to go swimming with that big girl.: 0)
They drive the foals over in trucks now as a few drowned some years ago. The ponies would be fine.
I find it shocking that she would come over on this side of the Island.
Nor I, but she’s a beauty regardless.
Awww, foals drowned? That’s terrible. Poor little things.
HaHa! She’s not that big until she swims up alongside your boat. Now, I seriously doubt there is a “Jaws” or an “Ol’ Hitler” and quite positive “Submarine Shark” will only be found on Shark Week, but keeping in mind the number of sharks that have been tagged are just a tiny fraction of what is out there, I’m pretty sure there are plenty of bigger fish in the sea. But 16 feet and 3400lbs? C’mon, that’s bigger than some ski boats and she was swimming in the freakin’ bay!
BTW, Septima is a tiger shark I have been watching. Pushing 14’ and 1000lbs. She pinged twice last summer well up into the bay behind Ocean City, MD in the afternoon amid all the jet skis and parasailors.
Hey, it’s not like going down the pond chasin’ bluegills and tommycods... :-)
Maryland "Freak State" DANG!
Its come to AVENGE FREDDY GRAY!!
I’ve got an old shark book from the early 1930’s with pics of basking sharks, great whites, tigers, and Hammerheads that had been either caught or washed ashore easily reaching 25 feet plus. Some of the Basking sharks were close to 40 feet.
These days the poor fish are lucky to make 10 feet given all the overfishing, nets, cables, and other man-made interference.
The Submarine shark episode reminded me of the Mermaids series Discovery showed a few years back—totally fake, although the wife believed it.
Aack! Not cool to me, as I will be going into the Chesapeake Bay.
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