SCIENTISTS WATCHING FOR MORE DUSKY SHARK SIGHTINGS OFF THE COAST OF NANTUCKET FOLLOWING 2025 SEAL ATTACKS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Quint, measuring 9-feet-8-inches and weighing an estimated 587 pounds at the time of tagging, is part of a broader network of tagged sharks<\/a> helping OCEARCH build a vast database on migration patterns and future ocean conservation.<\/p>\n OCEARCH’s great white shark, Quint, has reached Cape Cod in a recent satellite ping. This photo captures the subadult male when he was originally tagged in Nova Scotia back in July 2025.<\/p>\n (OCEARCH)<\/strong><\/p>\n He was originally tagged just under a year ago, in July 2025, in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n In fact, Quint marks an even bigger milestone for researchers: he is officially the 100th white shark OCEARCH has tagged, sampled and released in the western North Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n According to OCEARCH, his recent ping places him near “one of the most important seasonal habitats for white sharks in the western North Atlantic.”<\/p>\n OCEARCH’s great white shark Quint reaches Cape Cod in a recent ping.<\/p>\n (OCEARCH)<\/strong><\/p>\n Substantial amounts of prey draw white sharks to Cape Cod<\/a> each summer<\/a> and fall<\/a>, where the thriving coastal environment nurtures both juvenile and adult populations, OCEARCH said.<\/p>\n SEE IT: ‘1 IN 50 MILLION’ SPLIT-COLORED LOBSTER DONATED TO MASSACHUSETTS AQUARIUM IN RARE DISCOVERY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Quint and other sharks and\u00a0sea animals\u00a0<\/a>like her can be tracked in real-time using the\u00a0free OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker app<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ocearch Senior Veterinary Scientist Dr. Harley Newton joins FOX Weather to talk about the recent shark encounters her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[100,166340,18,19,17,57009,20513,3619,133,172982,107,461],"class_list":["post-534032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-earth-space","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-learn","tag-massachusetts","tag-ocean","tag-science","tag-stay22","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116745552266822276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"OCEARCH's](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/screenshot-2026-06-13-at-12.38.17-pm.png\")
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