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9-foot great white shark migrates to Florida coast for winter
Brass Bed, a juvenile great white shark, follows a longer winter migration route to Florida's productive waters, with two-thirds of tagged sharks entering the Gulf, researchers say.
- OCEARCH and the Tancook Islands Marine Field Station detected a 433-lb juvenile female great white shark off Merritt Island on Feb. 7, tagged in October 2025 near Nova Scotia. Researchers are monitoring whether she joins sharks in Gulf waters.
- This winter migration route appears, researchers say, driven by productive waters around the Cape Canaveral area and food along Florida's coast, with some sharks following the East and West Florida escarpment and Gulf of Mexico, Tyminski said.
- Recently, researchers noted irregular pings from Brass Bed, tracked with surgically implanted acoustic tags relying on an underwater acoustic receiver network maintained by the Tancook Islands Marine Field Station.
- Researchers are watching to see whether Brass Bed will join the growing number of sharks documented in Gulf waters, and upcoming research will detail their winter habitat use.
- These movements suggest Brass Bed's elusive patterns are providing fresh, potentially groundbreaking insights into white shark winter habitats, researchers at the Tancook Islands Marine Field Station and OCEARCH say.
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