Posted on 05/10/2022 11:51:43 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A massive great white shark was recorded swimming near the Jersey Shore.
The shark, which was named “Ironbound” after an island near Nova Scotia where it was first spotted, is 12 feet, four inches long and weighs 998 pounds.
OCEARCH researchers reported that the male shark was swimming just off the New Jersey coast on April 28th before heading south near the coast of North Carolina, where he pinged on Monday.
Researchers say Ironbound has travelled more than 13,400 miles since they began tracking him 2019.
"He's gone back and forth from where we found him in Nova Scotia and the Florida Keys several times,", OCEARCH’s chief scientist Bob Hueter told CNN.
Wildlife experts say great white sharks, which can grow to be more than 18 feet in length, are not uncommon in the region around this time of year.
“Juveniles utilize Long Island's coastal ocean as nursery habitat throughout the warm season,” said the New York State Department of Environment Conservation.
Sharks tend to migrate north and move to closer shorelines as waters begin to warm after winter months.
“Ironbound will likely spend most of his summer and early fall in those northern waters around Nova Scotia before turning around and returning to Florida,” Hueter said.
NYS wildlife experts say adult great whites can be dangerous to humans due to their size, power, and feeding behavior.
There have been 471 shark attacks by various species in the U.S. since 2012. Eight of them were fatal, according to shark experts from the Florida Museum of Natural History and International Shark Attack Files. Researchers also recorded 73 unprovoked incidents in 2021, compared to 52 bites in 2020, according to a report released earlier this year.
I like swimming pools…
We are going to need a bigger boat.
Can’t believe I used to surf with these guys cruising around.
What if it identifies as a dolphin?
Uh, that's on the small side
I could hardly swim, but figured out how to surf a bit in SoCal years ago. The hammerheads just swarmed in La Jolla and the big ones were out a bit further. YIKES. How am I still here....
Oh, a real shark.I thought you meant Michael Moore.
More in line with whale ........
He’s not a shark but a whale. As you can notice he has blubber.
Ping!.....................
That’s a whale.
5.56mm
When the US was in the race to win back the America’s Cup, my younger son was on the team to bring it back. One time, they were told that a bomb had been put under their sailboat, so he put a tank on and went down to examine the keel. Before he went in the water a hammerhead was in the area but they didn’t see it at that moment, so down he went. As he checked the entire bottom of the boat, he didn’t realize that he cut his ankle on the razor that was on the keel (used to cut off seaweed) It wasn’t till he was back on the boat that they saw all the blood. Was he ever lucky!!!!!!
Aquatic chief Ironside.
Murphy has much bigger chompers.
For a male that’s average sized.
He was cutting weight for another Nat Geo special this summer.
Had to keep it under a 1,000 lbs to get into his summer lingerie.
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