The female shark, dubbed Sable, has been swimming south in the Gulf Stream — the Atlantic Ocean’s answer to Interstate 95 — since it was first tagged on Sept.
The 11 1/2-foot, 807-pounder was pinged Thursday 20 miles east of Vero Beach, TCPalm.com reported.
The research team took length and weight measurements, blood samples and checked other vital signs during a 15-minute span, TCPalm.com reported.
She spent a couple of months cruising around Canadian waters feeding on high energy food like seals before she started coming south in the early part of the winter,” Hueter told TCPalm.com.
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