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Here’s How You Can Name and Track a Great White Shark
Name That Shark!
Here’s your chance to name a real-life great white shark, and then track your new favorite apex predator on its journey through the ocean depths.
The currently nameless shark was caught, examined, and tagged off the coast of North Carolina, and she will now join the other sharks whose movements are tracked around the world by the global nonprofit research group OCEARCH.
But first, this new shark needs a name.
“Help us name a shark!” OCEARCH posted to social media on Sunday. “We just sampled, tagged, and released a beautiful juvenile female white shark. She was 10ft 3in long and was an estimated weight of 522 lbs.”
It's a Great White Shark
OCEARCH describes itself on its website as “conducting unprecedented research on our ocean’s giants in order to help scientists collect previously unattainable data in our ocean.”
That’s just a nice way of saying they catch, examine, tag, release, and then track sharks (and other sea mammals). It’s scary business, and the pics below show just how dangerous and exciting the work can be that’s conducted by OCEARCH.
You can track all the sharks tagged by OCEARCH online at the OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker.
The tracker provides basic stats about the tagged shark, including its last known location.
Keep scrolling to learn about selected individual sharks tracked by OCEARCH, and how you can learn more about OCEARCH, its research, and how you can take part in their exciting expeditions and research projects.
Meet Maple the Shark
Maple is a female sub-adult white shark. She is 11 feet, 7 inches long, and weighs 1,264 pounds. Her most recent ping was on April 14 off the coast of Georgia. You can learn more about Maple and track her movements here.
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Meet Edithe the Shark
Edithe is a female sub-adult white shark. She is 11 feet, 8 inches long, and weighs 1,185 pounds. Her most recent ping was on November 7, 2022, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. You can learn more about Edithe and track her movements here.
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Meet Freya the Shark
Freya is a female sub-adult white shark. She is 11 feet, 8 inches long, and weighs 883 pounds. Her most recent ping was on January 17 off the coast of South Carolina. You can learn more about Freya and track her movements here.
Meet Bob the Shark
Bob is a male adult white shark. He is 13 feet, 4 inches long, and weighs 1,308 pounds. Her most recent ping was on November 7, 2022, off the coast of Georgia. You can learn more about Bob and track his movements here.
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Learn More and Name That Shark
You can learn more about OCEARCH, the OCEARCH Global Tracker, and how you can name a shark at OSEARCH.org.
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