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If great white sharks organize a race to the Cape ahead of summer, a nearly 11-foot sub-adult female is way ahead of the pack. The more than 600-pound great white named Andromache has quickly migrated north to her summer home. She was recently detected off of Martha’s Vineyard, according to the OCEARCH tracker — which shows her as the only OCEARCH tagged shark along the Massachusetts coast. Last week, it appeared that the monstrous 1,000-pound, 12-footer adult male named Ironbound would be the first OCEARCH shark to reach the Cape, but then Andromache popped up on the western edge of...

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...