11-foot white shark weighing 1,264 pounds pings off Florida's coast

WASHINGTON (TND) — An 11- foot white shark that weighed at least 1,200 pounds when it was tagged recently pinged off the Florida coast, according to OCEARCH.

OCEARCH said the shark, whose name is Maple, pinged about 43 miles southeast of St. George Island in the Gulf Of Mexico on Monday shortly before 10:45 a.m.

Over the past two seasons Maple has spent much of her winter in the Gulf of Mexico," the global non-profit organization noted on Facebook.

The post was accompanied by a video that noted Maple is "a sub-adult female" and "was named after the maple leaf, one of Canada’s national emblems."

The footage shows a team tending to the massive shark.

The organization's website noted that she was tagged and released on September 14 in Nova Scotia and had "a distinctive wound on the left side of her body and after the initial assessment, our science team believes it was likely due to a recent interaction with another larger white shark. This interaction was possibly an example of dominance behavior. It is not uncommon for sharks to show their dominance over a smaller animal of their species by delivering a significant but non-fatal bite."

She weighs at least 1,264 pounds and is 11-feet 7 inches long.

It has been such a pleasure working in Atlantic Canada over the past four years and we hope that Maple helps honor our gratitude for this region and its people for years to come," according to the website.

The organization noted that several other large white sharks are also being tracked. They include Bob, a 13-foot adult male that weighs 1,300 pounds. The big boy pinged off the coast of Florida on November 7, 2022.

There's also Vimy, a 1,637-pounder that measures 12-feet. He was last pinged off the Florida coast on April 10, 2022.

OCEARCH invited the public to track Maple at ocearch.org.