3,400-Pound Great White Shark Visiting Long Island

Published on May 12, 2015

If you’re in the water at Long Island’s South Shore beaches Tuesday, you are likely in the nearby company of a famous 3,400-pound great white shark.

The shark named Mary Lee is currently just a few miles off the Long Island coast, according to OCEARCH, a nonprofit organization dedicated to shark research that tracks Mary Lee and about 100 other sharks around the world.

Mary Lee, who of course has more than 37,000 followers on Twitter, started her morning several miles south of Long Beach and has since headed east and closer to the shore. As of 10:36 a.m., she was hanging out a few miles south of Robert Moses State Park.

Mary Lee is 3,456 pounds and 16 feet long, and has traveled almost 20,000 miles since she was first tagged off Cape Cod in September 2012, according to OCEARCH. For the past few days, she had been heading up the New Jersey Coast, but apparently she wanted to pay Long Island a visit. The last time she was this close to Long Island was in January 2013 when she tracked off the coast near Westhampton Beach.

You can follow Mary Lee on OCEARCH’s Shark Tracker page here.

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