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https://www.yahoo.com/news/katherine-great-white-shark-spotted-225802748.html

Summer may be the unofficial start to shark season. A gigantic great white shark named Katherine was seen swimming just ten miles away from civilization Sunday. This isn’t the first time the shark has made an appearance on the East coast.

Katherine apparently sent off a satellite ping Sunday from an area 10 miles away from Cobb Island, Virginia, an island part of the Eastern Shore barrier islands located east of the town of Oyster. The Virginia-Pilot reported Sunday that the 14-foot, 2,300-pound shark alerted scientists of its location on Sunday afternoon. She was seen about 80 miles away from Virginia Beach in May.

According to some reports, great whites are the species most often involved in shark attacks on humans. But “Jaws” notwithstanding, great whites may not being attacking humans on purpose but merely taking a nip to test their potential value as food.

The alarm that alerted scientists of Katharine’s location was placed on her when she was captured and identified by a great white shark research and advocacy team called Ocearch. The device is a large satellite tag affixed to her dorsal fin, used to track her movements. When Katharine’s fin reaches the top of the water, a ping notifies a satellite at the research center. She can be tracked in real time online via OCEARCH’s website.

OCEARCH first discovered Katharine looking for food off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and identified her in August 2013 to gather more data concerning migration patterns of sharks via satellite technology.

She was named Katharine as a nod to Katharine Lee Bates, the Cape Cod resident who penned the well-loved song “America the Beautiful.”

READ: Shark Attacks Mother Of 3, Bites Off Arm While Snorkeling In Bahamas

Captured four years ago near Cape Cod and studied by scientists, she then weighed 2,300 pounds and was 14 feet, 2 inches in length. It’s likely that she is much bigger now. Scientists last recorded her weight in 2012.

This wasn’t the great white shark’s first sighting near the shore. According to OCEARCH, Katherine had been spotted in May near Wilmington and Moorehead City, North Carolina. During the winter, she swam between Fort Pierce and Titusville. She's been meandering on a consistent northward route, giving off location signals Brevard County in May.

Katharine goes on outings near Florida quite often. She visited the Treasure Coast in 2014. She set off satellites near the Sebastian Inlet on May 12. She apparently headed to deeper water the morning after and was in the water near the St. Lucie Inlet.

She apparently headed near the Gulf of Mexico and spent June gaining more fans in the Gulf July 6 before she embarked back down south headed toward Sarasota, Florida, where she ended up about 60 miles offshore.

Ocearch tracked 300 sharks over the course of their studies. One, Mary Lee, is about 16 feet long and weighed about 3,500 pounds. She sent a signal out on Memorial Day near the coast of Deleware.



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I will have to remind the wife and GC about Katherine hanging out in Florida, along with the killer krocs, killer sea snakes, killer manatees, and killer Chilean sea bass.

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I would have thought she was named for the Empress of Russia

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So, evidently if you send this to your wife explaining the many dangers of the scuba trip she is going to take off Florida out of concern for her safety and not at all because you're jealous, the response will be "shut up old man!"

I'll show her when I jump out of that perfectly good airplane.

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 Frazzled wrote:

I'll show her when I jump out of that perfectly good airplane.


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These things have some pretty huge ranges and cover lots of ground, they come close to shore often enough but are so few that you'll almost never encounter one.

Only time I ever saw a great white was off Cape Town amidst thousands of seals on offshore rocks, but couldn't bother to be impressed because seal poop smell smothered everything for miles and I was...more than a wee bit seasick.

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 Vaktathi wrote:
These things have some pretty huge ranges and cover lots of ground, they come close to shore often enough but are so few that you'll almost never encounter one.

Only time I ever saw a great white was off Cape Town amidst thousands of seals on offshore rocks, but couldn't bother to be impressed because seal poop smell smothered everything for miles and I was...more than a wee bit seasick.


Yea all the sea lions in SF did the same thing for me. All I could think was 1. Man the smell. 2. Get a job you lazy bums!


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According to some reports, great whites are the species most often involved in shark attacks on humans. But “Jaws” notwithstanding, great whites may not being attacking humans on purpose but merely taking a nip to test their potential value as food.

Isn't it bull sharks that are the most commonly associated with human attacks? They actually swim up to shore and can survive fresh water.

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I am not sure but all I know is the Sharks and the Jets definitely don't get along. From what I understand their confrontations on the West Side are a major Story.

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 Luke_Prowler wrote:
According to some reports, great whites are the species most often involved in shark attacks on humans. But “Jaws” notwithstanding, great whites may not being attacking humans on purpose but merely taking a nip to test their potential value as food.

Isn't it bull sharks that are the most commonly associated with human attacks? They actually swim up to shore and can survive fresh water.


I think its great white sharks more commonly bite people, but it's by mistake. Bull Sharks do it on purpose, and are thus more dangerous as they're more likely to keep eating. A great white will likely take a bite and then leave.

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 Frazzled wrote:
 Vaktathi wrote:
These things have some pretty huge ranges and cover lots of ground, they come close to shore often enough but are so few that you'll almost never encounter one.

Only time I ever saw a great white was off Cape Town amidst thousands of seals on offshore rocks, but couldn't bother to be impressed because seal poop smell smothered everything for miles and I was...more than a wee bit seasick.


Yea all the sea lions in SF did the same thing for me. All I could think was 1. Man the smell. 2. Get a job you lazy bums!

right? They look so cool on TV...and then in real life they just smell so bad from so far away that they lose their appeal quickly

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 Frazzled wrote:
So, evidently if you send this to your wife explaining the many dangers of the scuba trip she is going to take off Florida out of concern for her safety and not at all because you're jealous, the response will be "shut up old man!"

I'll show her when I jump out of that perfectly good airplane.


Never seen a GW, but a couple years back I had a Tiger Shark circle above me and my group for several minutes when we were about 110' down off the Hawaiian Island of Kauai...or it could have been the abundance of Sea Turtles drawing it's interest...regardless, it's sobering, but it comes with the package. I'm sure Mrs. Badger Hound will be fine.
   
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She's from Chicago. She's not in the water with them, they're in the water...with her.

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 Vaktathi wrote:
These things have some pretty huge ranges and cover lots of ground


And if they happen to intrude on the territory of the real king of the sea, the killer whale, they either swim away as fast as possible or end up dead. Missing the liver.

   
 
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