WILMINGTON, NC – A 400-pound great white shark named Gladee that surfaced just miles off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina, earlier this year has surfaced again.
In March, the 8-foot, 8-inch long shark that Ocearch is tracking surfaced directly east of Wilmington and has made another appearance, but officials could not determine her exact location.
Gladee was initially tagged by Ocearch in 2020 near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and has been tracked, making a thousand-mile-long journey each year between Daytona Beach, Florida, and Canada’s eastern seaboard.
You can say she’s become quite the snowbird, spending her winters off the coast of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
In the past year, she’s been spotted mostly in the Carolinas after leaving her summer home in the Gulf of Maine last August. This year, she appears to be settling for warmer waters.
The latest ping on her monitor is described as a ‘z-ping’ which means she surfaced, but officials were unable to determine exactly where.