3 Great White Sharks Tracked Off Florida Coast: Researchers

FLORIDA — A 10-foot, 8-inch-long great white shark recently pinged off the coast of Southwest Florida, data from OCEARCH shows.

The non-profit organization tracks and studies sharks and other sea creatures.

The juvenile female great white shark, Andromache, who weighs 341 pounds, was last tracked Thursday just after 7 a.m. off the Florida coast.

She was initially tagged Aug. 9, 2020, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She’s traveled 14,204 miles in 720 days.

It’s not Andromache’s first time in the Sunshine State. She was also tracked in Florida waters around the same time of year in 2020, 2021 and 2021, data shows.

And she’s not alone in Florida waters at the moment. Two great white sharks were tracked off Daytona Beach earlier this month.

Crystal, a 10-foot-long juvenile female weighing 460 pounds, pinged in the area Nov. 2. Meanwhile, Bob, a 13-foot, 4-inch-long adult male weighing 1,308 pounds, was last tracked in the area on Nov. 7.

Adult great white sharks can grow up to about 20 feet long and can weigh more than 4,000 pounds, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries.

Great white sharks make predictable annual migrations between the northern and southern parts of their range — from Newfoundland, Canada, to the eastern Gulf of Mexico — each year, OCEARCH found. They tend to spend winters in waters off the southeastern United States.