Hilton hasn’t left Nova Scotia yet.
The 600-kilogram great white shark – tagged by the research group Ocearch in March in South Carolina – signalled four times on Thursday that he is still near Lunenburg, N.S.
Hilton first appeared on Nova Scotia’s south shore in early August, charming locals with a wry Twitter feed chronicling his movements, but hadn’t pinged since Aug. 23.
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His last ping Thursday was at 8:52 p.m., slightly farther offshore than he had been and headed in the general direction of nearby Halifax Harbour.
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Two other tagged great whites who signalled their presence in the Maritimes in mid-August have also pinged in recent days, but neither surfaced long enough to establish a location.
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Savannah, who pinged Aug. 14 off Sherbrooke, N.S., pinged again Monday at 6:36 a.m. George, who pinged Aug. 9 off Saint John, N.B., in the Bay of Fundy, pinged again at 9:40 p.m. Thursday.
Ocearch has tagged over 300 sharks, almost half of them white sharks, including about 25 on the east coast of North America, and open-sourced the data on its website and free app.
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