The second largest Great White shark ever tagged by an organization was tracked in the waters south of Miami this week only a few days after pinging of Vero Beach.
Unama’ki is a 2,076 pound, 15 foot-long Great White shark. Researchers at OCEARCH say she “pinged” off Key Largo on Thursday at 5:46 a.m. That was after she pinged Sunday off Vero Beach.
OCEARCH is a non-profit company that researchers sharks and posts maps of where they ping. The group thinks Unama’ki could be taking the same path as last year when she traveled past the Florida Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico. In October, OCEARCH said on its Twitter account Unama’ki was making a journey that two other mature female Great White sharks also made. They wonder if she’s leading them to a site where she might give birth.
Researchers at OCEARCH originally tagged Unama’ki in 2019 in Nova Scotia, Canda and posted footage on their YouTube page. The name stands for “land of the fog” in the language of the indigenous Mi’kmaq people of Nova Scotia.