MASSIVE great white sharks were tracked off the coast of North Carolina, including the largest male shark to be tagged.
Three great white sharks that were tagged by OCEARCH in Canada were tracked off the coast of North Carolina.
The sharks' trackers ping whenever they spend enough time in one location for the satellites to pick up the signal.
The largest male shark to be tagged by OCEARCH is Mahone, who measures 13 feet 7 inches and weighs 1,701 pounds, Yahoo reports.
His transmitter pinged most recently on April 11 at 7.06am, according to OCEARCH tracking data.
Mahone was tagged in October 2020 in the waters near Nova Scotia and has been traveling up and down the waters of the east coast of North America since.
Two other great whites were also tracked to the same area. Ulysses, a 12-foot, 990-pound shark who was detected off the coast on April 6, and Tancook, a juvenile 10-foot, 715-pound shark pinged on April 10.
OCEARCH is on a mission to tag 100 sharks throughout the western North Atlantic. Their goal is to "return our oceans back to balance and abundance."
The group has tagged 83 sharks allowing them to collect data for over 24 projects.
Their main goal is to learn when and where white sharks mate.
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Sharks can have incredibly long life spans. Recently the body of a shark that was alive when King Henry VIII was on the throne was discovered off the Cornish coast.
The Greenland shark is a rare species that has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrates at between 250 and 500 years.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust's Marine Strandings Network was contacted and arrived at the beach within an hour but the tide had come in and washed the shark back out into the sea.
An urgent appeal to search for the shark was raised, with a crew from Mermaid Pleasure Trips managing to find it.
The Wildlife Trust and Marine Strandings Network have used the carcass to learn more about the elusive species, and sharks in general.
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