A new fin is on the radar—Brookes—pinged off the Florida Panhandle on Sunday. The juvenile great white, measuring over 8 feet long and weighing more than 450 pounds, was tracked between Mexico Beach and St. Joseph Peninsula. Video here shows when Brookes was tagged in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, in September 2025.
A young female great white shark by the name of Brookes has been tracked moving into the Bay of Fundy, just north of the Maine–Canada border, on July 4.
The white shark was tagged by Tancook Islands Marine Field Station in collaboration with OCEARCH September 2025 in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.
Brookes’ latest ping off coast of Canada.
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Brookes made the trek down the East Coast, around Florida and into the Gulf, before circling back and heading right up the coast again.
OCEARCH said the young shark’s moves are part of seasonal migration, when white sharks keep moving north to productive feeding grounds for the summer and fall months.
Brookes has been making rapid moves over the last few days, pinging on OCEARCH’s shark tracker multiple times since July 1.
As the fall migration season wraps up, white sharks will be on the move again, in search of warmer waters for the winter, usually off the Southeastern U.S. or in the Caribbean.
“The sharks’ incredible ability to travel long distances allows them to navigate vast ocean spaces efficiently, moving between productive feeding grounds and warmer winter refuges,” OCEARCH said.
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At the time of her tagging, Brookes measured 8 feet long and a little more than 450 pounds.
Brookes the young great white shark being tagged in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, in September 2025.
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Track Brookes and more than 400 other ocean animals in real time using the free OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker app.
OCEARCH is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to researching and protecting sharks, whales, sea turtles and other ocean life.
Time will tell if Brookes continues moving north, or if she hangs out for a little while, until the fall migration season.
