MAY 13, 2019
by Mark
Price, The Charlotte Observer
Shark
trackers say a 15-foot, 2,137-pound great white shark is traveling up the
Carolinas coast on a path toward the Outer Banks.
That's a
fish about the length of a Volkswagen Passat.
OCEARCH, a
nonprofit that tags and tracks sharks, reported in a Facebook post that the
15-foot shark named Luna showed up on tracking records May 9 at 11:34 a.m. off
Charleston.
It was
swimming through a deep sea area known as the Charleston Bump, 80 to 100 miles
off the coast. That section of ocean gets its name from a sudden rise above the
largely flat coastal floor off Charleston, according to NOAA. Experts say the
bump "deflects" the northward flow of the Gulf Stream offshore.
OCEARCH has
been tracking the 15-foot shark for months. It began its journey traveling
south from the Canadian coast in October 2018 and made it to the southern tip
of Florida before doing a U-turn toward the Carolinas, according to OCEARCH
tracking.
Luna is one
of eight great white
sharks currently being tracked by OCEARCH off North Carolina and South
Carolina.. Four of them are off the Outer Banks, says OCEARCH. The others range
in size from 9 feet 8 inches to 14 feet 9 inches, says OCEARCH.
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