“LeeBeth”, the frequently surfacing, always traveling great white shark that inspired a media frenzy, when she showed up in Texas waters has “pinged” again.
This means her dorsal fin breached the Gulf’s surface and the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy satellite tag fitted on her by Capt. Chip Michalove Dec. 08, 2023 made contact with a satellite.
It then fed the location into the highly recommended Sharktivity app.
She showed up on Easter Sunday March 31 at 4:45 a.m. a good distance offshore from the middle Florida Gulf Coast, pretty much due west of New Port Richey.
UPDATE: “LeeBeth” pinged again in the same general area 8:33 a.m. April 1, 2024.
And that’s looks like what she’s doing here.
The fun part of satellite tracking technology, however, is you never know where these sharks might end up.
“LeeBeth” is 14.1 feet long and an estimate 2,600 pounds.
Her journey is helping rewrite what has been previously known about great white sharks and their travels from the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico.
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