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Breton is the first shark tagged during Ocearch's Expedition Nova Scotia 2020. He is named for Cape Breton, where he was tagged.Breton is the first shark tagged during Ocearch's Expedition Nova Scotia 2020. He is named for Cape Breton, where he was tagged.
Breton is the first shark tagged during Ocearch's Expedition Nova Scotia 2020. He is named for Cape Breton, where he was tagged.

13-foot great white shark swims off First Coast

By Vic Micolucci - News4Jax
Published on December 29, 2023 at 9:44 am
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Ocearch is tracking several sharks off the coast of Northeast Florida.

Right now, a 1,400-pound great white shark is swimming about 50 miles off the coast. It’s a 13-foot-long adult male named Breton.

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He was first tagged back in 2020 off the coast of Nova Scotia and has traveled more than 33,000 miles since. He’s made several trips up and down the East Coast.

Read the rest of this story at News4Jax, a Jacksonville Today news partner.

author image Vic Micolucci is a news anchor and investigative reporter at News4Jax. He is a Jacksonville native who attended the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications, where he graduated with highest honors. He joined the WJXT team as an assignment editor and mobile journalist in 2010. Before that, he worked as a reporter, producer and photographer for ABC News "On Campus" in Gainesville, as sports director for WUFT-TV (PBS), and as a reporter and host at WUFT-FM (NPR).

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