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Mako Shark “St. Marys” Comes Home

Caught and tagged off Ocean City, Maryland and named for an Ohio elementary school, a fast tracking, young mako shark, dubbed “St. Marys”, is visiting the waters off Halifax. The five-and-a-half-foot juvenile male shark is […]

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A Mako Shark’s Tale

When a shark tagged off the Eastern Shore as part of a marine-life tracking project took off on an unprecedented monthlong journey, researchers quite literally watched its every move. Thanks to cutting-edge satellite tags, scientists […]

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A Wayward Mako Shark

Soundings first reported: Researchers say a juvenile shortfin mako shark that was tagged more than eight months ago off Ocean City, Md., is tracking a highly unusual path directly south in the mid-Atlantic — a […]

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Tagged Mako Shark Visiting Bermuda

With over 400,000 tourists visiting Bermuda every season, we can add one more with the visit of a young, female mako shark that will cruise by the island on its incredible, episodic journey. Caught, satellite […]