Giant Great White Shark Ironbound Resurfaces Near Popular Beaches.
A 12-foot, 4-inch great white shark named Ironbound, tagged by OCEARCH in Nova Scotia in 2019, has been spotted off the coast of South Carolina after disappearing from tracking in April 2022. Ironbound has swum over 15,186 miles since being tagged and is part of the annual migration of great white sharks in the Atlantic Ocean. OCEARCH has been tagging great whites for over a decade to collect data on their life-cycle and takes biological samples before releasing them back into the ocean.