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Great White Tracked off SC Coast
Shark tagged off Cape Cod spends time in local waters.
A 16-foot great white shark apparently spent time in local waters last week as it swam from Massachusetts to coastal Georgia.
The shark, named Mary Lee by researchers, was tagged with a global positioning device in September off Cape Cod, Mass. Since then, the 3,400-pound shark has meandered along the eastern seaboard.
On Tuesday, the fish was off the coast of Savannah. While in the Lowcountry over the weekend, its tracking website indicates Mary Lee swam all over the local area from Friday until Saturday.
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Follow Mary Lee's progress on OCEARCH.org.
The shark may have even swam up the Cooper River in Charleston on early Sunday morning before heading south, according to the GPS map.
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The shark was tagged as a part of ocean research organization OCEARCH's tracking of large ocean species.
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