Osearch found him on May 9 swimming just off North Carolina’s Pamlico Sound, as reported by MarketWatch. He later ‘pinged’ the site in the Atlantic due east of Philadelphia. He’s a 12-foot long, 20 year old shark named Ironbound. In a super, super early instance on April 28, a 998-pound great white was swimming off the coast of the Jersey Shore, according to his Osearch tracking website and reported by Discovery. People have also reported several seal carcasses washing up on beaches that appear to have been savaged by sharks.īut it’s not just this particular shore experiencing sharks early this summer. On June 5, a shark was spied eating a seal off Nantucket with the description ‘eruption,’ and off Chatham Beach someone uploaded a photo of a pool of blood with a dorsal fin in the center. That same day, another report identified three great whites off Tuckernuck Island feeding on a dead whale. Other sightings through the app include a June 1 sighting of four great whites off Nantucket, including one behemoth that was ‘easily 15 feet plus’ with a large piece of its tail missing. When sharks come to the surface, the tags transmit radio waves to satellites orbiting Earth more than 600 miles away. Those official posts include data from sharks’ acoustic tags and Smart Position and Temperature transmitting tags that can be affixed to sharks’ dorsal fins. The app is both crowdsourced, with regular people able to post sightings that will be verified by the New England Aquarium, and supplied with official posts. The icons in the app are adorable – little white dorsal fins on a blue background – despite the grisly possibilities they represent. What’s this, you say? Yes, there is a shark-tracking app, created by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, that lets you share white shark sightings and upload videos to alert others of possible blood-in-the-water scenarios. There was an unconfirmed sighting even earlier at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro on May 23 that was reported to the Sharktivity app. The shark was filmed devouring a seal in a harrowing video posted in a tweet by Nantucket Current. That sighting involved a great white shark seen near the Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket. Usually, these toothy fish are not seen in the area until mid-June, but already about a dozen have been spied-the first one on May 29. In Cape Cod and its islands, shark numbers are already up, and people are scanning the water for that distinctive fin, according to NBC News Boston. We're calling it: it's the summer of sharks. And this great white activity comes with its own iconic theme song.
Cole is a award-winning multimedia and investigative reporter.Right when we were planning to unplug, spread out a towel and spend this summer beachside, reports are showing some unusual activity off the Atlantic. We wish Tancook, as well as his fellow sharks, happy and safe travels.ĭonna L. We are awaiting Tancook’s next ping in order to get a better idea about his location. ”
We receive a variety of quality pings and sometimes our system doesn’t filter out pings that we consider low quality. “After evaluating the ping shortly after showing up on the OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker, our data team removed it. “It looks like the ping of Tancook in the Chesapeake Bay was a bad location ping,” explained Paige Finney, communications specialist for OCEARCH. Great white sharks, also known as white sharks, don’t typically travel up the Chesapeake Bay or its tributaries so it’s understandable why so many people were surprised by the pings on OCEARCH’s website and how at least one of the social media posts went viral.īut Tancook didn’t visit the Chesapeake or its tributaries.
Social media was abuzz with recent reports of Tancook in a couple of the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay – on Friday, the shark pinned pretty far up on the James River and later in the weekend, in the mouth of the Wicomico, according to OCEARCH’s website. Tancook is the name given to a great white shark by the people at OCEARCH, an organization that puts tracking devices on sharks and provides the ability for people to see where the sharks are in real time.
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