Researchers say the journey could reveal a new white shark nursery.
This is not the first time that OCEARCH has observed such a journey being taken by the great whites it is tracking, but the non-profit says that it could reveal some intriguing information.
"This is not necessarily a surprising observation because we have seen it before from several other mature female white sharks. It is interesting though because it is primarily a journey we see large mature females make," OCEARCH Founding Chairman and Expedition Leader Chris Fischer told"One of our hypotheses for this is that they are gestating.
. Since then, the shark has advanced more than 5,700 miles, traveling all the way down the North American coast and into the Gulf of Mexico before turning back and making its way into the open ocean. "One very interesting move Unama'ki made was traveling west of the Mississippi River. This is not something we often track white sharks doing. She also spent a long time in the Gulf of Mexico compared to other sharks we've tracked," Fischer said.
The shark's name, which means"land of the fog," is the what the indigenous Mi'kmaq people of Nova Scotia call Cape Breton, where the animal was tagged.
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