{"id":510235,"date":"2026-03-08T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/510235\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:55:08","slug":"two-great-white-sharks-cayo-and-nori-recently-detected-off-nc-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/510235\/","title":{"rendered":"Two great white sharks, Cayo and Nori, recently detected off NC coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two great white sharks were recently detected off the North Carolina coast, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OCEARCH shark tracker<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Satellite data shows a 10-foot, 3-inch female white shark named Cayo pinged offshore of North Carolina on March 6, 2026, at 6:09 a.m. Cayo weighs approximately 689 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Another female great white, Nori, measured at 8 feet, 10 inches and weighing 423 pounds, pinged in North Carolina waters on March 3, 2026, at 12:29 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OCEARCH map\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/aa46a683-9668-4622-be22-9996bff1f09d-sharkwebpic.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Both sharks are part of OCEARCH\u2019s ongoing research program tracking great white shark migration patterns along the Atlantic coast. A \u201cping\u201d occurs when a tagged shark surfaces and its dorsal fin breaks the water, allowing a satellite transmission to record its location.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the shark activity, a female loggerhead sea turtle named Wassaw Will pinged in the Onslow Bay area on March 7, 2026, at 8:47 a.m. The turtle measures 3 feet, 3 inches in length.<\/p>\n<p>Marine researchers use satellite tracking data to monitor migration routes and better understand the movement of sharks and sea turtles along the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Shark pings off North Carolina are not uncommon during seasonal migrations as ocean temperatures begin to shift in late winter and early spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two great white sharks were recently detected off the North Carolina coast, according to the OCEARCH shark tracker.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-510235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}