Massive Great White Shark Returns to Dixie

Photo Credit: ocearch.orgAround this time last year, one of the Atlantic’s most famous great white sharks entered Southern waters for the first time since the crew at the non-profit OCEARCH tagged her.

Mary Lee, as the 16-foot, 3,500-lb shark is known, has since shown a clear affection for the South. Though she spent the early part of the year exploring the waters off New England, then circling Bermuda and the mid-Atlantic, she has spent the summer and fall off the coasts of the Carolinas. According to the most recent pings from her tracking device, she spent last night nestled in the shallow waters of St. Helena Sound, just south of Charleston, South Carolina, and has now moved back offshore.

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