SAVANNAH, Ga. — A nearly 700 pound, 10-foot-long great white shark pinged off of the Georgia coast earlier this month, according to research group Ocearch.
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The female juvenile shark, which is named “Hali,” was recorded off the coast of Ossabaw Island on the Georgia coast south of Savannah.
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Sharks “ping” when tags that researchers attach to them break the surface of the water and send data back.
Hali has been known to hang out off the Georgia coast. The last time Hali pinged in the area was a little further south off of Brunswick around this time last year.
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According to Ocearch, it’s not uncommon to find great white sharks off the Georgia coast.
“Many western north Atlantic white sharks spend their time off the southeast of the U.S. for their overwintering,” Page Finney with Ocearch said.
And spring breakers, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Despite the great white shark’s reputation for chomping on unsuspecting swimmers, the shark actually does not prefer to have human flesh on the menu. Great whites have a hard time digesting human beings and will often let go when they realize they’ve taken a bite out of human prey.
Hali was first tagged off of Nova Scotia in Sept. 2021 and is named for the people of Halifax.
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