Scientists track great white shark off Virginia coast (Photo)

Scientists are gonna need a bigger boat as they track a nearly 750-kilogram great white shark off the U.S. east coast.

Miss Costa, a juvenile great white shark and the newest member of the Ocearch.org research team, is lurking just off the coast east-southeast of the Virginia-North Carolina state line.

Miss Costa sent a ping to the Argos Satellite System at 7:49 this morning when she ventured near the surface. She is named after Ocearch sponsor Costa Sunglasses.

The shark was tagged on Sept. 22 off the coast of Nantucket. She was 12 feet, 5 inches long and weighed 1,668 pounds.

Ocearch has been tagging sharks around the world for several years and monitors their locations when the sharks are close enough to the surface to send a satellite signal.

Ocearch’s most famous shark, great white Mary Lee, last pinged on Sept. 28 just off Charleston, S.C.

Agencies/Canadajournal

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