Another huge shark surfaces off Jersey Shore

A white shark circling the Atlantic Ocean made another appearance off the Jersey Shore earlier this week.

Anne Bonny, a juvenile female, surfaced a few miles off the coast of Toms River just after midnight Thursday, according to a tracking device attached to the shark.

Anne Bonny measured 9 feet, 3 inches long and weighed 425 pounds when scientists tagged the shark in Ocracoke, North Carolina, in April 2024.

The shark has been tracked swimming 7,720 miles up and down the Atlantic coast between Massachusetts and South Carolina, according to OCEARCH, a nonprofit marine group that tags and monitors the movement of sharks in the world's oceans.

Anne Bonny's appearance came days after another large shark — a 12-foot great white nicknamed Scot — was tracked east of Manasquan Inlet. Scot is an adult male who last weighed in at 1,644 pounds, trackers said.

On Monday, Anne Bonny was south of Nantucket Island, off the Massachusetts coast.

The shark's tracker will "ping" when it surfaces for at least 90 seconds. Anne Bonny last surfaced off the coast of New Jersey in November 2023.

The shark is named after the a female pirate that frequented the waters around Cape Hatteras in the early 1700s, OCEARCH said.

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