"At her size, she's probably starting to approach sexual maturity, and if not, she will be in a few years or so. Bob Hueter, OCEARCH chief scientist, of Sarasota, was on the mission when Sable was tagged. Great white shark sightings in the waters along eastern Florida have become increasingly common in recent years. Movement, temperature and depth studies through the use of 3 different tags. OCEARCH began in 2007 and has hosted 200 scientists who have helped execute 42 expeditions and tagged over 431 animals. "She was named after the Sable Island National Park Reserve, located approximately 180 miles offshore of Halifax, Nova Scotia, near where she was tagged" in 2021. "Sable is the 76th shark sampled, tagged and released in the nonprofit research organization's Northwest Atlantic White Shark Study and the third of Expedition Nova Scotia 2021," according to OCEARCH's website. The team then affixed a smart position or temperature (SPOT) tag on the dorsal fin and lowered the shark elevator (platform) back into the water. In 15 short minutes, the team can collect 12 different biological samples from the shark. The research team took length and weight measurements, blood samples and checked other vital signs. Sable took a bait, and before she knew what was going on, she found herself being lifted up from below by a hydraulic lift on the OCEARCH research vessel. Seriously, when the team from OCEARCH first met Sable, it was two hours before dawn in the cool autumn waters off the coast of Nova Scotia. So what do we know about Sable? Well, she likes long swims, tuna sashimi and loves music by The Weeknd. She has traveled over 2,500 miles since being tagged. She was an estimated 20 miles offshore, traveling along the edge of the Continental Shelf, where water depths are over 300 feet. Sable may be 11.5 feet long, weigh over 800 pounds and have a mouthful of hundreds of razor sharp teeth, but she is nowhere near the beach, at least not where she last pinged. It meant the dorsal broke the surface of the water.īeachgoers have nothing to worry about - well, probably not. 23, Sable sent up a "ping" from the satellite tag affixed to her dorsal fin. The latest arrival is a great white shark named Sable. But for many millennia, birds, fish and even sharks have also come to Florida to escape freezing wintertime temperatures. When Vero Beach was founded in 1919, its founders coined the slogan, "Where the tropics begin." Fitting, since a cold day here is about as rare as a cold in, well, you know where.įor over a century, Vero Beach and the Treasure Coast have drawn an ever-growing population of winter visitors escaping the frigid North.
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