A 10-foot great white shark was tracked off the coast of New Jersey Tuesday morning, July 27th. According to the Ocearch Shark Tracker, it pinged off the coast near Ocean City and Atlantic City just after 8 a.m.
Ocearch tags and monitors several sharks and other marine life to help scientists develop data. The organization also shows a map which can determine whether a shark swims close to shore.
The over 10 foot, 800 pound shark, known as Miss May pinged several miles off the coast. She is considered a subadult, meaning she passed through her juvenile period but does not have all the typical adult characteristics yet. The shark was originally tagged in 2019, off the coast of Florida.
Miss May has a Twitter account @MissMay_Shark and is followed by more than 8,000 people. On July 28th at 1:32 pm, she tweeted “She is just off the coast of Atlantic City.”
If you are interested in tracking Miss May’s movements, you can visit her Ocearch page or follow her on Twitter.
Shark attacks in New Jersey are very rare.
Only six shark attacks have occurred since 1975, and all of those were non-fatal, according to the Shark Institute. The last fatal shark attack in New Jersey was in August of 1926, nearly a hundred years ago.
