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A 13-foot-long great white shark named Bob has been discovered lurking in the ocean near a tourist spot.

On Sunday (October 23), OCEARCH, a non-profit organisation that tracks the world’s largest sharks, spotted a monstrous Bob near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, which spans into both Virginia and Maryland in the United States.

His trek down America’s east coast was tracked by the organisation, with a recording near New Jersey on October 21 and another off Cape Cod in Massachusetts on September 22.

On Monday, OCEARCH tweeted a photo of Bob (October 24). They stated, “Mature male white shark Bob has moved further south off Virginia Beach! When we studied Bob last year off Nova Scotia he was approximately 1,308lbs & over 13ft long.”

Chesapeake Bay is a picturesque tourist destination with a lot of historical landmarks, fishing locations, and water sports facilities. It is also the largest estuary in the United States.

In the winter, great whites like Bob move down the American east coast to warmer seas in Florida, following their diet.

They will swim all the way up to Nova Scotia, Canada, in the winter.

Gavin Naylor, head of the University of Florida’s Florida Program for Shark Research, told sources, “We often see white sharks move down from Canadian waters to Florida. However, this is not a ‘hard and fast’ rule.”

“White sharks are quite large and, as a result, have considerable thermal inertia. This means they don’t ‘warm up’ or ‘cool down’ as much as would smaller animals, so temperature per se is less of a driver of movement than is food availability.”

“If you look at multiple white shark tracks in the Northwest Atlantic, you will see that they are all over the place.”

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