{"id":436434,"date":"2025-12-09T22:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436434\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:20:14","slug":"ocearch-tracking-1300-pound-great-white-shark-off-jacksonville-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/436434\/","title":{"rendered":"OCEARCH tracking 1,300-pound great white shark off Jacksonville coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. <\/strong> \u2013 A large great white shark has been detected off the coast of Jacksonville Beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Her name is Goodall. She was tagged Sept. 30 off Nova Scotia by a team working with OCEARCH, a shark research group that tracks hundreds of sharks worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Goodall was tagged and released in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia (OCEARCH)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Each shark carries a tag that connects to a satellite system, but they only ping when they come to the surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Goodall \u2018pinged\u2019 Tuesday morning off the coast of Jacksonville Beach. <\/p>\n<p>Goodall the great white pings off Jacksonville coast December 9 (OCEARCH)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Goodall is a 13-foot, 2-inch adult female white shark named to honor Dr. Jane Goodall, a global leader in wildlife conservation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Great Whites typically arrive in the shelf waters of Florida during the winter after migrating from Canadian and New England nearshore coastal habitats during the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Another white shark named Contender also pinged Tuesday. He is even bigger than Goodall and swimming much farther off the coast of Northeast Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Contender the shark (OCEARCH)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">You can track Goodall, Contender and other sharks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A large great white shark has been detected off the coast of Jacksonville Beach. Her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":436435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,59823,11539,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-436434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-ocearch","13":"tag-shark","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115691941297451722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}