{"id":705041,"date":"2026-07-22T10:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705041\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:12:22","slug":"great-white-shark-ripple-tracked-off-canada-coast-after-traveling-350-miles-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705041\/","title":{"rendered":"Great white shark Ripple tracked off Canada coast after traveling 350 miles in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ripple, a subadult great white shark tracked by OCEARCH, made an impressive journey in just a week, heading up the coast of\u00a0Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tagged in September 2025 off the coast of Nova Scotia by Tancook Islands Marine Field Station in collaboration with OCEARCH, Ripple was 11 feet, 6 inches long and weighed 778 pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the time since, the white shark has made quite the trek, traveling more than 8,000 miles all the way down the East Coast, around\u00a0Florida\u00a0and deep into the Gulf before coming all the way back to Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OCEARCH said the white shark\u2019s latest ping puts Ripple about 45 miles off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and the shark tops the leaderboard for most miles traveled in the last week with 354 miles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.48191027;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40044939\" width=\"874\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/000-miles-way-east-coast-135079410.jpg\" alt=\"A great white shark, Ripple, with a tracking tag near its dorsal fin, is seen next to a boat in choppy water.\" class=\"wp-image-40044939\"  \/>Ripple, a subadult great white shark tracked by OCEARCH, made an impressive journey in just a week, heading up the coast of Canada. OCEARCH<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Ripple is further north than he\u2019s ever been tracked by OCEARCH. <\/p>\n<p>And the nonprofit said he could make two different moves next.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He could continue northeast, up around Newfoundland, or he could venture northwest into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which OCEARCH said is an important feeding place for white sharks like Ripple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.59082031;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40044941\" width=\"349\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/000-miles-way-east-coast-135079135.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of a map showing a great white shark's journey along the East Coast of Canada, with temperature indicators.\" class=\"wp-image-40044941\"  \/>Map showing Ripple\u2019s journey along the East Coast of Canada. OCEARCH<\/p>\n<p>Sharks like Ripple head north into Canada in search of cooler waters and abundant food sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the fall and winter, the sharks begin their journey back south into warmer waters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with Ripple and more than 400 other ocean animals in real time using the\u00a0free OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker app.<\/p>\n<p>OCEARCH\u00a0is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to researching and protecting sharks, whales, sea turtles and other\u00a0ocean\u00a0life.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ripple, a subadult great white shark tracked by OCEARCH, made an impressive journey in just a week, heading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[626,33461,5340,90,5341,56,54,55,4407,231],"class_list":["post-705041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-canada","tag-great-white-sharks","tag-ocean","tag-science","tag-sharks","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}