Due to her frequent visits to the New Jersey coast over the last few years, Mary Lee the great white shark has become just about as much of a celebrity as Snooki and JWoww (and probably more beloved). Now, researchers think that they've made a major discovery just north of us.
In the pantheon of famous Jersey Shore names, we have such luminaries as Snooki, J-Woww, and Mary Lee. The first two are terrifying predators, the third is a shark, and she's been spotted making her way back to the coast of New Jersey in the past week.
There was a lot of talk about sharks this past Summer. From gruesome scenes of nature playing out, to people even helping a stranded shark, the stories have run the gamut of scary to encouraging. And one of the most endearing shark stories centered around a regular visitor.
There have been a lot of shark tales already in this early stage of summer 2015. From our friendly visitor Mary Lee to much scarier encounters to the south of us, a very different story unfolded to the north this week.
Sharks attacking dolphins, or at least trying to, probably happens quite a bit and we never even know about it.
Nonetheless, a visitor to one South Jersey beach over the weekend snapped a picture which might indicate sharks are getting extra hungry.
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Mary Lee, the great white shark who was tracked just off the coast of Ocean County almost two weeks ago made plenty of headlines and turned everyone into a marine biologist for a weekend. Mary Lee has since headed south (at least for the time being) and is out of the public conscience, but that doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of other sharks in and around the area.
Her name is Mary Lee, and she is 3,456 pounds to be exact!
She was originally tagged in Cape May back in 2012.
Well Mary Lee is back!! The great white's tracker was recorded around 8am this morning 10 miles off of Wildwood. Then at 1:04 p.m., Mary Lee pinged again about 12 miles off the coast a little further north, right on the border of Avalon and Sea Isle City.
Capt John Stevenson of the North Wildwood Police Department says