Great Whites, Sharks that is!

There are plenty of fish in the sea and some of them just happen to be great white sharks. The sea I am referring to here is the Atlantic and the sharks I am referring to frequent the waters right off Jacksonville and closer to home, Fernandina Beach. Now there is a plan to drop sensors into the Atlantic Ocean off northeast Florida to help researchers continue to track great white sharks. Once these sensors are in place and activated shark experts at the University of North Florida will be alerted whenever a great white shark that's been tagged with a tracking device swims within a few hundred yards of one of the sensors, which will be placed on buoys within a mile from shore.

Last year, scientists tracked a couple of great whites near shore off Jacksonville Beach. A 16 ½-foot and a 14-foot great white were caught and tagged within sight of an Atlantic Beach park. There was a website that let you follow these tagged and named great whites on their journeys up and down the Atlantic seaboard. Researchers say data from the tracking devices show that some great white sharks spend more time close to shore than they previously believed.

Even though the sharks are spending more time closer to the shore I figure there is still plenty of room for me in the sea and lots of other kinds of sharks and fish too.