Great White Pinged Off Scatarie Island

A great white shark that was detected off Richmond County on Monday has moved farther north to waters off Scatarie Island in the CBRM.

‘Jason’ is a 227 kilogram, 2.7 metre long sub-adult shark.

His latest ping came shortly after 8:00 this morning off Scatarie.

He was tagged by researchers off Mahone Bay on July 16th and was pinged off the coast of Island Madame on Monday.

People can follow where he’s tracking by visiting the website ocearch.org.

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