Cue the Jaws riff: ‘Cayo’ has just closed in on Mar-a-Lago.
The 10-foot great white shark passed by the Space Coast this week, but now its dorsal is drawing much more online attention since the shark sauntered by President Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club.
The 10-foot shark, dubbed ‘Cayo,’ tagged by the nonprofit OCEARCH, just ‘pinged’ off the coast of Palm Beach near Mar-a-Lago.
OCEARCH and other researchers track sharks via satellite when the dorsal fins surface.
They implant so-called Smart Position and Temperature tags on the sharks’ dorsal fin. The tags can record temperature, salinity and depth.
The tag’s battery gets triggered when the shark surfaces, sending a signal to a satellite.
This great white was tagged and released in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, in late July.
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Want to track Cayo the great white shark?
Visit OCEARC at www.ocearch.org/tracker/detail/cayo
This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Great white shark ‘Cayo’ tracked near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Reporting by Jim Waymer, Florida Today / Florida Today
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