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White Shark

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White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is the marine animal followed in the study “Brookes · White Shark — OCEARCH animal”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 26 Oct 2026, 3:43 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.
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Brookes · White Shark — OCEARCH animal: 19 newly observed reports.

Movement summary

Window 28 Sept 2025, 2:43 am → 26 Oct 2026, 3:43 am · 441 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
13,853 km
Segments / gaps
13 / 12
Longest gap
65.5 days
Median interval
5.1 h
Fastest segment
488.3 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 475 flags
  • source qc · 441 flags across 441 reports
    Source QC flags: ocearch_animal.
  • implausible displacement rate · 34 flags across 64 reports
    Displacement of 3 km in 0.1 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.

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

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite argossatellite_argos26 Oct 2026, 3:43 am26 Oct 2026, 3:43 amReporting441

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References

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

Generated 26 Oct 2026, 1:31 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.

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