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Posted on 05/15/2021 11:13:34 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
LOCAL NEWS Great white shark Andromache is heading back to the Cape ahead of Memorial Day The nearly 11-foot shark was tagged off Nantucket Great white shark Andromache, tagged off the Cape last year, is migrating north ahead of the summer.
She’s racing back to the Cape before the tourists arrive for Memorial Day weekend.
A nearly 11-foot great white shark named Andromache, that was detected last summer off the Cape and Nantucket, is quickly migrating north to her summer home.
The sub-adult female that has traveled more than 5,000 miles along the eastern seaboard in five months was close to the New Jersey coast on Monday, according to the OCEARCH tracker. She has since continued climbing north and was approaching Long Island Tuesday night on the way back to the Cape.
Last August, Andromache was tagged off Nantucket during OCEARCH’s Expedition Massachusetts 2020.
The shark was then detected around Nantucket and the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge for the next couple of months before leaving for the south in early October, according to the OCEARCH tracker. Her most southern point was near the central Florida coast in November. She then spent much of the winter off Georgia and South Carolina.
In mid-April, Andromache was detected off North Carolina before quickly shooting up the coast over the past few weeks.
She was named by OCEARCH’s partner, luxury Swiss watchmaker Ulysse Nardin, after the Greek character Andromache, who is “a symbol of maternity, strength and courage,” OCEARCH said.
The OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker shows Andromache’s path, along with the tracks for 70 tagged sharks.
“You can see that many of them spend their summer on the Cape, and then they’ll head down the coast quite a bit,” said OCEARCH’s Chief Scientist Bob Hueter. “They’ll go set up shop in the southeast off the Carolinas and north Florida, and some even keep on going to the Florida Keys and into the northern Gulf of Mexico.
“They have quite an expansive range,” he added. “We’re discovering they start laying down this big track from Florida all the way to Canada pretty early in their growth.”
The OCEARCH tracker shows real-time locations of sharks all around the world, including off Australia and South Africa. The tracker is updated when a tagged shark breaks the surface for some time, which sends a signal to the satellite system.
“The tracker without question has been revolutionary in changing peoples’ attitudes about the white shark,” Hueter said. “Before we did this work, peoples’ perception came from ‘Jaws’ and ‘Shark Week.’
“By telling the story of each of these animals and explaining the stage of their lives and giving each one a name, you personalize the shark,” he added. “We have transferred peoples’ perceptions about the species.”
The researchers will be returning to Massachusetts in late July, working off Nantucket and the Cape.
“We’ll hopefully get a few more tags when we’re there,” Hueter said. “We’ll spend some time there, and then go up to the Maine coast and then Nova Scotia.”
I was thinking of how it is never to cold, even in the winter for a straggler white shark to be here and was wondering when the first white shark sightings would occur in 2021.
It looks like any day or week now.-Tom
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Is there anything more fun than teasing a shark?
No white before Memorial Day, no fashion sense.
I saw this movie.
Great Oppressor Shark
Its kind of like teasing a wiener dog with a piece of steak.
More like teasing a Rottweiler or a pit bull with a piece of
hot dog.
Required: https://youtu.be/ZvCI-gNK_y4
I have a good fiend who is a white shark biologist and he has that theme on his cell phone.-Tom
[[Is there anything more fun than teasing a shark?]]
Swimming around with a couple of lbs of liver strapped to you
“Do not meddle in the affairs of Sharks for you are crunchy and taste good even without ketchup.” ~ Diana in Wisconsin
Human have eaten more sharks than sharks have eaten humans.
LOL!
You just ruined my lunch with that picture of “Lurch” out on the water. UGH!
Our current dog is very careful about not biting the hands that feed her. We have had others which were dangerous. If they thought you had something they wanted to eat hidden in your hands they were fair game as far as they were concerned.
The research program has changed peoples views on the sharks from Jaws to Disney’s Bambi.
So what kind if shark is it?
Did they tag it?
Is it heading back to cape cod?
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