Kara, the great white shark, was tracked swimming near Vancouver Island again, after being detected last month in the same area.<\/p>\n
Kara, a four-metre-long great white shark, was seen near Vancouver Island roughly 90 kilometres south, off the coast of Oregon, Dr. Michael Domeier, director of the Marine Conservation Science Institute (MCSI), wrote in an Instagram post on April 25.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s cruising the continental shelf break at the moment. She\u2019s full of surprises since I thought she\u2019d be halfway to Hawaii by now!\u201d said Domeier in his post.<\/p>\n
Watch below:<\/p>\n
This is the second time the large shark has visited near Vancouver Island in less than two months. MCSI detected Kara in the same area back in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a big ocean out there,\u201d said Andrew Trites, director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit at the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n Trites\u2019 research focuses on the prey of the great white sharks, like seals and sea lions, and says that Kara was spotted at the continental shelf break, which could be because she was feeding.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you drain the ocean\u2026we\u2019ve got our mountains\u2026but then it looks like a big flat plain, and then it drops off into really deep water. So we call it the big continental shelf break,\u201d said Trites.<\/p>\n He notes that many marine mammals are feeding there, and believes northern fur seals, elephant seals and possibly sea lions are in the area.<\/p>\n