Great white shark spends Christmas off the coast of Myrtle Beach. Here’s where it is now
A Great White shark named after a notorious female pirate spent its Christmas swimming off the coast of the Myrtle Beach area.
Anne Bonny is a 425-pound juvenile shark that was tagged by Ocearch, a nonprofit that conducts research on sharks, on April 21, 2023, off Ocracoke, North Carolina.
The shark was named after the notorious female pirate that frequented the waters around Cape Hatteras in the early 1700s, near where she was tagged, according to Ocearch.
Anne Bonny’s tracker pinged off the Myrtle Beach area coast on Dec. 24 and off Pawleys Island on Christmas Day.
She is still in the Pawleys Island area, pinging at 8:33 a.m. on Dec. 26.
Anne Bonny’s track shows that she has been swimming along the Myrtle Beach coast for the past year.
Earlier this month, two other great white sharks, each weighing over 1,000 pounds, recently swam through the Myrtle Beach area while migrating along the East Coast. The locations of Scot, a 1,644 pound adult male, and Bob, a 1,308 pound adult male, pinged in the Atlantic Ocean near Myrtle Beach.
During this time, sharks tend to migrate north and south searching for an ideal ocean temperature between 50 and 80 degrees, according to Ocearch.
