The last time he pinged in New Jersey while moving to cooler waters.
Maple is a subadult and suffered serious injuries when she was first caught.
“He had a distinctive wound on the left side of his body,” OCEARCH says.
“After the initial assessment, our scientific team believes it was probably due to a recent interaction with another larger white shark. This interaction was possibly an example of domination behavior.”
At this time of year, a population of large white sharks in the western North Atlantic moves north into the waters of New England and Nova Scotia in what OCEARCH calls “summer feeding aggregation.”
When winter arrives in the northern hemisphere, they travel back to the southeastern United States.