100-Pound Shark Swims Into Shallow Waters Off Jersey Shore

We know about Mary Lee. Now we have another named shark who has been roaming New Jersey’s ocean waters.

On Sunday, this shark came really close.

Elias, a hammerhead shark tagged by OCEARCH, was pinged a few hundred feet from the Jersey Shore waterline, swimming into the shallow waters near the Asbury Park boardwalk.

The six-and-a-half-foot shark has been hanging around the Jersey Shore off Long Beach Island. On Monday around 2 a.m., he appeared in the sea near Monmouth County.

Elias weighs 100 pounds and was first tagged on July 19 in Montauk, N.Y. He can travel as much as 11.037 miles in a day, and has traveled a total of 331.350 miles

Dave Grime caught this hammerhead in the Carl Darenberg Memorial Shark’s Eye Tournament in Montauk.

OCEARCH, a nonprofit organization dedicated to shark research, tags sharks such as Elias and Mary Lee to help scientists gather data about various sharks. Its projects use SPOT tags -- Smart Position and Temperature, which are the only devices capable of real-time tracking of fine and broad scale movement, anywhere in the world, according to the organization.