The non-profit organization OCEARCH, known for tracking sharks and other large aquatic creatures, shared that spring breakers making their way to North Carolina will want to keep their eyes open for one giant shark.
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The 13-foot-long great white shark named Breton has made his return to North Carolina’s coast, according to OCEARCH, which shared that he was pinged in the area over the weekend.
Breton, an adult male, weighs in at 1,437 pounds, and on Saturday, he was tracked near the Pamlico Sound on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the non-profit shared.
OCEARCH has been tracking Breton since the group first tagged him in September 2020 near Nova Scotia. He was tagged with an electronic tracker that pings whenever he breaks the water’s surface, allowing the organization to monitor his swimming patterns.
After the shark was tagged in 2020, the group gave him his name after the “wonderful people of Cap Breton,” where OCEARCH was conducting its expedition, the group shared.
Great white sharks in the Atlantic have a yearly migration pattern from the Florida Keys northward to Canada, and OCEARCH shared that Breton appears to be following that route.
Traveling with Breton are several other great white sharks that are also being tracked along the North Carolina coast. This includes the smaller 8-foot-long male sharks Simon and Jekyll, which OCEARCH shared were pinged near the same area as Breton on Saturday.
Monitoring great white sharks has become more necessary as the International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed them as vulnerable species, mostly due to the overfishing of their prey.
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