Great White Shark Tracked Off North Miami Beach

Map credit: OCEARCH

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Florida - An 8-foot, 8-inch great white shark weighing 400 pounds was tracked off of North Miami Beach, Florida at 11:43 p.m. on Thursday, February, 2024.

Map credit: OCEARCH

This juvenile white shark named ‘Jekyll’ was tagged with a satellite transponder by OCEARCH shark researchers off the coast of Jekyll Island, Georgia in December 2022.

The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) population has been growing along the U.S. East Coast, according to a study by NOAA Fisheries.

The study also found that great white sharks occur primarily between Massachusetts and New Jersey during the summer, off Florida during winter, and with a broad distribution along the U.S. East Coast during spring and fall.

To stay up-to-date on this and other great white sharks' latest locations around Florida, visit the OCEARCH tracking map.