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White Shark

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White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is the marine animal followed in the study “Bella · White Shark — OCEARCH animal”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 25 Oct 2026, 12:35 am. This is an OCEARCH animal. This is a published observation, not a live location.

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Satellite photograph centred on the latest published position of this White Shark.
Satellite photograph of the latest published position. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.
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Bella · White Shark — OCEARCH animal: 12 newly observed reports.

Movement summary

Window 22 July 2025, 3:25 am → 25 Oct 2026, 12:35 am · 254 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
8,502 km
Segments / gaps
24 / 23
Longest gap
69.5 days
Median interval
4.9 h
Fastest segment
337.5 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 261 flags
  • source qc · 254 flags across 254 reports
    Source QC flags: ocearch_animal.
  • implausible displacement rate · 7 flags across 14 reports
    Displacement of 26 km in 0.2 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.

23 gap(s) longer than the 120 h gap rule; the route during each gap is unknown.

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite argossatellite_argos25 Oct 2026, 12:35 am25 Oct 2026, 12:35 amReporting254

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References

  1. Bella is an OCEARCH animal. Tracking data courtesy of OCEARCH (ocearch.org/tracker). link

Generated 26 Oct 2026, 1:34 pm under publication policy policy:atn-erddap:default@1,policy:crossref:metadata@1,policy:gbif:default@1,policy:motus@1,policy:obis:default@1,policy:ocearch:default@1,policy:otn-geoserver:default@1,policy:stc:default@1.