Great white shark makes midnight Jersey Shore visit

A great achromatic shark measuring much than 9 feet agelong and weighing 425 pounds visited the Jersey Shore astir midnight Thursday.

The same shark was spotted southeast of Point Pleasant Beach astir Thanksgiving past year, according to the New Jersey Press.

Researchers started tracking Anne Bonny aft she was tagged successful North Carolina successful April 2023. The nonprofit radical OCEARCH said the large achromatic has travelled much than 7,700 miles since then.

She tends to enactment on the Atlantic Ocean coastline, moving betwixt South Carolina and Massachusetts.

NJ.com calls Anne Bonny, who’s named aft an 18th period pirate, a juvenile female. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says great achromatic sharks typically live to beryllium successful their 70s.

A much larger large achromatic shark passed by New Jersey past week a small further retired to see.

Scot, who similar Anne Bonny wears a satellite-linked tracking tag connected its fin, is 12 feet agelong and weighs much than 1,600 pounds. That apex predator travelled much than 16,000 miles since being tagged successful September 2021. That has included a travel to the Florida Keys and a sojourn to Canada.

Shark colonisation had been successful diminution for respective decades, but according to OCEARCH, their numbers are connected the emergence erstwhile more.

“Sharks are coming back,” OCEARCH idiosyncratic Dr. Bob Hueter told CBS News successful July 2023. “They’re not adjacent astir apt adjacent to what they were backmost successful the 1940s and 1950s. But they are making a comeback.”