CAPE COD, MA – A 425-pound great white shark named Anne Bonny is continuing her vacation in Cape Cod.
Bonny, a 9-foot, 3-inch long shark, was first spotted by OCEARCH breaching in Cape Cod Bay on July 2nd at around 7:37 PM. In the two weeks since, she has been spotted five times in the same area.
On July 5th, she was spotted just south of her previous sighting near the Billingsgate Shoal. On Monday, Bonnie let trackers know she was still in the area, surfacing just west of the shoal at around 5:49 pm.
Bonny was tagged by OCEARCH earlier this year. On April 21, she was captured off the coast of Ocracoke, North Carolina. In the 53 days since she had traveled 1,081 miles before settling in at Cape Cod Bay earlier this month.
She remains far enough offshore so as not to pose any risk to bathers at the area beaches.
“Anne Bonny is our 90th white shark tagged in the Western North Atlantic and our 2nd during Expedition Northbound. She was named after the notorious female pirate that frequented the waters around Cape Hatteras in the early 1700s, near where she was tagged,” OCEARCH reported. “Anne Bonny was a pioneer of her time and we’re excited to see what Anne Bonny the shark will teach our scientists.”