RODANTHE, N.C. — Researchers say they're seeing a growing number of great white sharks off the coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Four sharks with tracking devices have "pinged" in recent days. The sharks are being tracked by researchers with the organization Ocearch.
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The organization said on Twitter that a shark named Ironbound was among the sharks that were traveling near the Outer Banks community of Corolla and moving down the coast toward Rodanthe.
So far we’ve been getting lots of great pings from white shark Shaw. It’s a good sign that we’ll be getting great data from him for years to come. Today he is near North Carolina. He is named after Mike Shaw, @SeaWorld San Diego curator of fishes for over 40 years. pic.twitter.com/TDQNPhcCQW
— OCEARCH (@OCEARCH) October 24, 2019
Ironbound is a 12-foot, 4-inch male great white that weighs about 1,000 pounds. The organization is tracking three other male great white sharks between 10 and 12 feet in length.
Great white sharks are known to swim off the southeastern United States coast in the winter.
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