{"id":831245,"date":"2026-07-28T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831245\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:08:09","slug":"two-great-white-sharks-tracked-off-western-newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831245\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Great White Sharks Tracked Off Western Newfoundland"},"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\/2026\/07\/quint-ocearch-great-white-shark.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Two Great White Sharks Tracked Off Western Newfoundland\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quint (Ocearch)<\/p>\n<p>A number of great white sharks that are being tracked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/tracker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">marine research organization Ocearch <\/a>have moved into the Gulf of St. Lawrence \u2013 including two tagged predators that, as of the weekend, were swimming off the province\u2019s west coast. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/tracker\/detail\/quint\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quint<\/a>, a 9-foot male, pinged in the Strait of Belle Isle Sunday afternoon while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/tracker\/detail\/webster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Webster<\/a>, a 12-foot male, pinged just north of the Port au Port Peninsula yesterday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Until recent years, great white shark sightings were considered rare in Canadian waters, but recent research shows the massive fish regularly make their way as far north as Newfoundland in the warm summer months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Quint (Ocearch) A number of great white sharks that are being tracked by marine research organization Ocearch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,269876,185074,269873,66,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872,323],"class_list":["post-831245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831245","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=831245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}