1,400-pound great white shark makes big moves as he heads north behind other sharks
After his latest satellite ping on Monday, Breton was about 70 miles off the coast of South Island, South Carolina.
Breton the white shark is tagged off coast of Nova Scotia
Video from Sept. 2020 shows OCEARCH tagging an adult male white shark named Breton. Breton weighed more than 1,400 pounds and was 13 feet long at his tagging.
SOUTH CAROLINA - Breton, a 1,400-pound great white shark, is catching attention as he makes big moves heading north in the Atlantic, trailing behind other white sharks of the season.
This adult white shark has been tracked by OCEARCH since September 2020, when he was tagged off Scatarie Island, Nova Scotia.
Breton has traveled all up and down the East Coast and up into Atlantic Canada in the almost six years since his tagging.
Breton the shark being released in 2020 after his evaluation and tagging. (OCEARCH / FOX Weather)
He's gone out deep into the Atlantic and come relatively close to shore.
Now, after a brief stint hanging out off the coast of Florida while other white sharks made their way up the coast into cooler waters, Breton is finally following.
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After his latest satellite ping on Monday, Breton was about 70 miles off the coast of South Island, South Carolina.
Breton's location on Aug. 10, 2026, off the coast of South Carolina. (OCEARCH)
That currently makes him the southernmost white shark tracked by OCEARCH in the western North Atlantic, the nonprofit said on Monday.
Most other white sharks on the global shark tracker are up in Atlantic Canada at this point in the season, where there are cooler waters and more abundant food choices.
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"Sharks don't always follow the rulebook," OCEARCH Senior Data Scientist John Tyminski said after Breton's brief break off Florida in late July. "Breton's unexpected journey reminds us that the factors driving white shark movements are complex, and we're still uncovering the secrets behind these remarkable migrations."
MONTAUK, NY - AUGUST 9: Deckhand DJ Lettieri walks with a mackerel fish which is used for bait and chum to catch shark aboard the OCEARCH research boat just offshore in the Atlantic Ocean on August 9, 2017 in Montauk, N.Y. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post / Getty Images)
OCEARCH is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to researching and protecting sharks, whales, sea turtles and other ocean life, tagging these animals to track and study their migration habits and behaviors from afar.
Keep up with Breton and more than 400 other ocean animals in real time using the free OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker app.