Mary Lee being tagged, 17 September 2012, off Cape Cod. Photo by OCEARCH.
Yesterday at 4:00 PM Mary Lee was inside, in Pamlico Sound, paddling around the entrance to Ocracoke harbor. Just like the big white in Jaws. INSIDE!!!
Then she went back out through the inlet, and 90 minutes later was moving quickly down the oceanside of the island.
When she was down in Florida, at one point she was within 200 yards, perhaps closer, of the beach. She seems to like to poke around inlets and estuaries.
Ocracoke is one of the places we visit. We wade around in the ocean on the beach side.
Is this too cool, or what?
You can track Mary Lee here:
OCEARCH shark tracking
More on Mary Lee:
Mary Lee - a legendary shark
Update: Mary Lee is further out to sea this morning, moving more than fifty miles in less than 24 hours. At 1:00 AM ET on 23 January she was near the 50 fathom line, northeast of Hatteras, which is where the continental shelf begins its rapid drop off into the depths of the Atlantic. She is out of the warm Gulf Stream and into the southern reaches of the Labrador current.
