Season of the shark? Second great white pings in area, this time off Delaware
Thanksgiving has just come and gone, but now tis the season ... of the shark?
After great white shark Anne Bonny pinged off Assateague Island, now Ocearch has reported a second great white it is tracking has pinged off the coasts of Delaware and New Jersey.
Here's what the Delaware News Journal had to report about this new shark visitor, plus more below too on Anne Bonny
Great white shark Simon visits for Thanksgiving week
Simon, a 9-and-a-half foot shark, was along the Delaware and New Jersey coastline on Thanksgiving night, acccording to Ocearch's tracker.
On Nov. 23 at 9:53 p.m., Simon, a 434-pound juvenile white shark was near Atlantic City in the Atlantic Ocean.
From where did great white shark Simon get his name?
According to Ocearch, Simon's name is inspired by St. Simons Island in Georgia where he was near at the time of tagging, and the shark has traveled over 6,000 miles since he was initially found, per the News Journal.
Simon joins Anne Bonny as great white visitors this Thanksgiving week
Anne Bonny the great white shark pinged in the waters off of Assateague Island, Virginia, at 4:51 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 22, according to tracking data from OCEARCH. She was just south of the Winter Quarters Shoal, a very rich fishing ground that attracts an abundance of fish.
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Just who is Anne Bonny the great white shark?
As the Asbury Park Press reported, Anne Bonny is female great white who has also been known to enjoy swimming off the coasts of New Jersey, North Carolina and even Nova Scotia, depending on the season.
Anne Bonny is a juvenile that weighed 475 pounds, and measured 9 feet, 3 inches when OCEARCH captured her briefly in the spring for research purposes, as the Asbury Park Press reported.
OCEARCH is a nonprofit research group that has been studying great white sharks' behavior for over a decade off the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and Canada. To date, the group has tagged 92 great whites, eight short of its goal of 100 sharks.
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Delaware News Journal content intern Amethyst Martinez and Asbury Park Press reporter Dan Radel contributed to this story.
This article originally appeared on Salisbury Daily Times: Season of the shark? Second great white pings in area, off Delaware
