Great whites tagged off Mass. traced to Fla.

[jackdaniels]

Great whites tagged off Mass. traced to Fla.

BOSTON — The great white shark seems to be a fan of the Florida winter.

Electronic tracking tags placed on three sharks off Cape Cod last summer have surfaced near Jacksonville.

The first tag began transmitting data in mid-January about 50 miles off the coast near the city. The second popped off in early February and the third surfaced Monday.

Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles said data analysis from the first two sharks showed deep dives to 1,500 feet and migratory travels along the eastern seaboard.

Data from the third tag is being analyzed and two other tags haven't surfaced.

The tags, placed by harpoon, were the first successful tagging of great whites in the Atlantic using satellite-based technology.

[Team Karma]

Cool shit. I find it very interesting to learn about any fish movements and patterns. Do you have a link to the research page?

[Sometackle]

Very cool. It would be interesting to see exactly where they migrated.

[Pete Santini]

There were so many last summer off chatham eating all those seals I saw one 3 years ago off the sw corner of stellwagon thats awesome those satelite tags , last person killed by a shark in massachusetts was in the 1930s i believe not sure. Hopefully a kayaker or a windsurfer wont get mistaken for a seal this summer up there.

[nayzario]

Hopefully a kayaker or a windsurfer gets mistaken for a seal this summer up there.

I would like to see that as well