{"id":511025,"date":"2026-03-08T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:11:07","slug":"great-white-shark-cayo-pings-tight-to-beach-off-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511025\/","title":{"rendered":"Great white shark Cayo pings &#8216;tight to beach&#8217; off North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 7, 2026, 12:20 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The OCEARCH <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocearch.org\/tracker\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shark Tracker<\/a> app on Friday revealed that a tagged great white shark named Cayo was hugging North Carolina coast, specifically near Emerald Isle, Onslow Beach, and Huggins Beach.OCEARCH stated Saturday via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1608038393812933\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a>: &#8220;BE ADVISED\u2013WHITE SHARK CAYO.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:396px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/89037450007-whiteshark.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Juvenile great white shark.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The post was to advise that the shark was \u201ctight to the beach\u201d and not meant to alarm residents.Cayo was tagged as a 10-foot, 3-inch, 689-pound juvenile female white shark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2026\/03\/05\/costa-rica-tourists-spot-majestic-whale-shark-cruising-shoreline\/88994437007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: Surreal footage shows giant shark cruising Costa Rica shallows<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/wcti12.com\/news\/local\/two-great-white-sharks-cayo-and-nori-recently-detected-off-nc-coast\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News 12<\/a> reported that another OCEARCH-tagged shark, Nori, was also close to the North Carolina coast.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:396px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/89037501007-cayo.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Position of Cayo the great white shark.\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 7, 2026, 12:20 p.m. ET The OCEARCH Shark Tracker app on Friday revealed that a tagged great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[182817,79,191603,191604,190124,191606,186366,183420,183415,213264,191607,183265,183293,230610,186364,182820,201],"class_list":["post-511025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-accessfree","tag-science","tag-sstssportsoutdoors","tag-sstsnoutdoors","tag-tagaccidents-disasters","tag-tagbeaches-islands","tag-tagearth-sciences","tag-taglocal-affiliate-travel","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagnorth-carolina","tag-tagoffbeat","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsharks","tag-tagwildlife","tag-typestory","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511025","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=511025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}