{"id":42071,"date":"2025-08-02T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42071\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:10:07","slug":"great-white-pinging-while-swimming-on-grand-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42071\/","title":{"rendered":"Great White Pinging While Swimming on Grand Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/great-white-shark-baker-ocearch.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Great White Pinging While Swimming on Grand Banks\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great white shark Baker (via Ocearch)<\/p>\n<p>A group dedicated to tracking and researching the movement of sharks in the Atlantic shows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/tracker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tagged great white<\/a> currently swimming on the Grand Banks. <\/p>\n<p>Great whites, the largest predatory fish in the oceans, have been spotted more frequently in the colder waters around Newfoundland in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>A transponder, attached to Baker, a nearly 13 foot, 1,400 pound great white by U.S. research group Ocearch, pinged on the Grand Banks southeast of Trepassey early yesterday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Baker arrived on the Grand Banks after making his way up from just outside Mahone Bay off Nova Scotia last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Great white shark Baker (via Ocearch) A group dedicated to tracking and researching the movement of sharks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-42071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}