DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – People across the country love Florida, and it turns out sharks do too.
OCEARCH is reporting two more great white sharks were just spotted near the coast.
In early November a 10-foot, 460-pound great white shark was pinged along Daytona Beach.
This morning a 13-foot, 1,400-pounder surfaced just North of Jacksonville Beach.
Then less than an hour later another one pinged off the coast of Biscayne Bay.
OCEARCH Senior Advisor for Science & Academics Dr. Bob Hueter told News 6 Chief Meteorologist Tom Sorrells our coast is a hot spot for sharks this time of year.
“It’s kind of like winter snowbirds, the sharks start heading south in the fall as the temperatures drop up north. We have probably about a dozen species that are on the move right now. The one that is the most prominent is the one we work on on OCEARCH the white shark otherwise known as the great white shark,” he said.
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Hueter said the migration started about mid-October and it typically runs through November into early December.
“By early December, they are typically off the southeast coast, off the Florida East Coast, and then a great number of them go all the way around the Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico, the eastern Gulf of Mexico primarily,” Hueter said.
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He said the sharks stay anywhere from one to 100 miles offshore.
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