A Giant Great White Shark Is Near Tybee Island On The Georgia Coast & He's Almost 1,500 lbs
This coastline might be a popular mating area.
The great white shark named Breton being tagged.
Tybee Island, Georgia, is a charming coastal beach town with celebrity residents and tranquil private beaches.
This week, however, there is a different kind of visitor lurking close by off Georgia's shores.
Breton, an adult male great white shark, was located just off the coast of Savannah. This massive marine predator is over 13 feet long and weighs almost 1,500 pounds.
He was last located on May 19 using tracking data from OCEARCH, a nonprofit organization that specializes in marine research.
Their website and mobile apps allow users to follow the path of marine life in "near real-time" using satellites that connect to tags on the sharks' fins.
The SPOT tags we place on shark\u2019s dorsal fins allow us to track the animals movements for an average of 5 years. When the fin breaks the surface we are able to get a near real-time location of the animal. It is this location that pings on the #OCEARCH Global #SharkTracker.pic.twitter.com/fW4TwBYmZo— OCEARCH (@OCEARCH) 1652832309
Breton has traveled roughly 18,340 miles up and down the east coast since the time of his tagging in Nova Scotia, Canada, in September 2020.
White Shark Breton is heading NE offshore! He took this same exact route last July. Is he heading N early or will he come back S again soon? Track Breton on the OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker: https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/detail/breton\u00a0\u2026\n\n: Robert Snow \n\n#OCEARCH #FactsOverFearpic.twitter.com/IGP1bIjgmq— OCEARCH (@OCEARCH) 1649895516
He is believed to be currently heading northeast up the coast, following a similar route he has taken in previous years.
"[What's] really important about a mature male [shark] is he can help us find the mating site. And Breton's had a very unique track that's gone straight from Cape Breton, down to the Carolinas and back the last several years, really helping us zero in on the Carolinas as a mating area," Chris Fischer, the founder and expedition leader of OCEARCH, told FOX Weather over the weekend.
Another shark tracked by the organization named Ironbound was also spotted nearby recently, off the coast of North Carolina.
You can keep up with the sharks and their paths on the OCEARCH website.
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