An ornery great white shark is being tracked up and down the East Coast.
He's a 20-year-old apex predator measuring over 12 feet long and weighing in at around 1,000 pounds. But his size is not what caught the eye of researchers; that was his temper.
Ironbound's tracker pings each time he comes to the surface. It last pinged on Tuesday, May 10, off the coast of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Two weeks before that, he was swimming off the New Jersey coast. Ocearch's mission in tracking the ocean's apex predator is to learn more about them and help destigmatize them
In addition, tagging sharks like Ironbound or Mary Lee--the 4,000 pound female tagged back in 2012--helps show people that these animals are always nearby but very rarely harm humans.
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