Shark for Thanksgiving? Yes, find out where this great white pinged just off of Assateague

Keith Demko, Salisbury Daily Times
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Anne Bonny is visiting off the coast of Assateague for Thanksgiving. A long-lost relation or friend you never knew you had?

Not this time. 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?

A juvenile white shark nicknamed Anne Bonny by OCEARCH researchers is seen here when she was tagged in April off the coast of North Carolina.
A juvenile white shark nicknamed Anne Bonny by OCEARCH researchers is seen here when she was tagged in April off the coast of North Carolina.

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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And just for fun, who was Anne Bonny the pirate?

Anne Bonny was one of only a few known female pirates in recorded history and ran with the likes of Calico Jack Rackham in the early 1700s, as the Asbury Park Press reported. She was captured in Jamaica in 1724 and sentenced to die, but there is no record of her release or execution, so her ultimate fate is shrouded in mystery.

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Asbury Park Press reporter Dan Radel contributed to this story.

This article originally appeared on Salisbury Daily Times: Great white shark pings off coast of Assateague as Thanksgiving guest