Large white shark circles, bites boat fishing off destiny, in Florida
Large solid white shark caught and labeled from the Florida-Georgia coast
The competitor is a large white shark of 1,653 pounds, the largest male tagged and released by Ocearch scientists. It was labeled off the coast of Florida-Georgia.
- Great Shark White Florida Fishing Circles Out of Forride about 20 minutes.
- The shark was estimated about 14 feet long and weighing more than 1,000 pounds.
- White sharks, as well as several other species, are not foreign to Florida waters.
There is nothing like a meeting with a white shark 14 feet long to pump the heart.
Not to mention the stories you bring to the house of your vacation in Florida.
This is what happened when a Kentucky family has headed for a fishing trip since the begging of Florida.
Large 14 -foot white shark “turned to us and checked us”
Captain Taylor Bankston took a group of Kentucky fishermen – a mother, a father and two daughters – on his 26 -foot boat, Get the Gaff, on April 10.
➤ “Giant teeth and a giant eye globe”. Photos show the big white shark meeting by Florida Boater
By fishing at around nine miles of destiny in the Gulf of America, formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico, “I looked up … What I thought I saw in the water was a submarine, and I was then waiting for the periscope to come out of the water,” said Bankston.
“But it never did … And then the submarine turned into something that had giant teeth and a giant eyeball,” he said.
“I immediately knew that I had never seen any fish in the water so big. It had to be a big white one,” said Bankston. “It was just surrounding us and we verify. It was as if we saw a dinosaur,” he said.
The shark surrounded the boat
Bankston said the shark had surrounded his boat for about 20 minutes, marking the back of the boat at some point “to see what we were … and we realized that we had nothing to do with it.”
After the shark turned for about 20 minutes, he just disappeared.
➤ More photos, videos published by Taylor Bankston on Facebook
“Then five minutes later, we saw a dorsal fin about 100 meters to cross the slow surface like going out … like the film” Jaws “. It was she when she swam, ”said Bankson.
What was the size of the large white shark in the Gulf?
Bankston estimated that the shark was about 14 feet long, with a dorsal fin about 2 ½ feet high. He estimated that it was between 1,100 and 1,400 pounds.
“The dorsal fin looked like the fin on” Jaws “,” he said.
“Jaws 2” was filmed in the Destiny region.
“The first thing I thought I was” Captain, we are going to need a larger boat, “said Bankston.
To put it in perspective, Bankston’s boat was 26 feet long, which makes the shark just over half of the boat.
“If I had been connected to a heart rate, there would have been a peak and a beep,” said Bankson.
Shark meeting in the Gulf made for “Great Day”
Bankston said the fishermen on board were ecstatic.
“Oh my God, it did his vacation. It was a great day.”
Where is Destiny in Florida?
Destiny is located about 40 miles east of Pensacola or 80 kilometers west of the city of Panama. It is around 130 miles west of Tallahassee.
Large white sharks without stranger to Florida waters
White sharks love to visit Florida during the winter months.
Ocearch, who describes himself as an “organization centered on data built to help scientists collect inaccessible data in the ocean while opening the supply of our research and our explorations”, label and regularly follows sharks, white and tigers.
Record the white shark marked on the Florida-Georgia border
In January 2025, scientists marked a 13-inch 13-inch shark, nicknamed “Contenter”, near the border of Florida-Georgia.
The male shark was to weigh more than 1,300 pounds.
➤ 2 large white sharks, a 1,653 pound massif, ping off the east coast of Florida. Here is where
After being labeled, the competitor headed further south, exploring the waters to the south than the county of Indian River before turning north.
His latest “ping”, when a transponder attached to his dorsal fin sent a signal to a satellite, was on Tuesday April 15 off the coast of North Carolina.
3 other ping sharks off the Florida coast this week
Three other sharks – two whites and a tiger – tagged by Ocearch cracked the Florida this week, one this morning: this morning:
- Dold: male white shark, 761 pounds, 11 feet 2 inches long. Ping at 10:45 a.m. on April 16 in the Gulf west of Sarasota.
- Morada: female tiger shark, 761 pounds, 11 feet 2 inches long. Ping 7:34 a.m. on April 15 in the south-east of the Atlantic of Miami.
- Breton: male white shark, 1,437 pounds, 13 feet 3 inches long. Ping at 8:54 p.m. on April 12 in the Atlantic east of Jacksonville.
Florida is the capital of the world of sharks in the world
Florida is known as Shark Bite of the World. And Volusia County directs the State in the number of attacks not caused, according to the international attacks dossier for sharks.
What you need to know about sharks in Florida waters
Information provided by Dr. Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida program for research on sharks and curator of Florida Museum of Natural History.
➤ Curious of sharks in Florida? We interviewed an expert on the things you should know
- Some large sharks can swim in waters 1 or 2 feet deep.
- There were 351 attacks of sharks not caused in the county of Volusia from 1882 to 2023.
- Taurus sharks are tolerant with fresh water and can be found in estuaries and rivers.
- Dawn and twilight are the worst moments to be in the water, but the bites are possible at any time of the day.
- Sharks follow the apparatus, so pay attention to the shores of the shore, especially in summer.
- The black spikes and the pointed nose of the Atlantic are the most common encountered by Florida swimmers.
- The most aggressive shark of Florida waters is considered to be bull sharks.
