Mary Lee's NJ Visit Continues With Trip To Atlantic City

“Do AC”: a slogan even a shark can love. Mary Lee, the massive female great white shark was spotted off the coast of Cape May over the weekend. She has now made her way to Atlantic City.

As of 6 a.m. Wednesday morning, Mary Lee pinged about 7 miles off the coast of Atlantic City, according to the Ocearch website. Cisco, an immature male shark that accompanied Mary Lee over the weekend, didn’t appear to be with her. His last ping was at 12:18 Tuesday morning, although he didn’t surface long enough to get an accurate location.

He was 8 feet, 7 inches long and weighed 382 pounds when he was tagged off Nantucket, Mass., on Oct. 7. He was named for Cisco Beach on Nantucket and for Cisco Brewery, which created the Shark Tracker Light Lager to support the organization's research. He also doesn’t have the fame or following Mary Lee has collected.

Mary Lee weighed in at 3,456 pounds and was 16 feet long when she was tagged in September 2012 off Cape Cod. Since the first time she was spotted, she has established quite the presence on social media: she has over 107,000 followers on Twitter.

The user behind that account has used the account to educate followers about sharks and their role in the ocean. Ocearch has tagged more than two dozen sharks around the world with real-time SPOT satellite tags to track their movements.

Ocearch says its research has led to more than 50 scientific papers that are in the process of being written or are in the peer review stage. The website also has a section geared to educational programs for students from kindergarten on up.

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