Great white shark Breton is back in Florida, scientists say

Great white shark Breton is back in Florida, scientists say

He’s not fin-ished.

Breton, the nearly 1,500-pound great white shark that went viral for etching a “self-portrait” in the Atlantic Ocean, has again been spotted off Florida shores.

The 13-footer, who regularly travels as far as Canada and the Caribbean, is electronically monitored by the marine life organization OCEARCH.

The viral great white shark Breton was recently spotted off Florida waters. Ocearch

On Wednesday morning around 11 a.m., Breton pinged in waters south of St. Augustine.

He’s been a busy boy. Shortly before the new year, he had been swimming west of Bermuda after departing from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland — not far from the events of “The Perfect Storm” — in mid-December.

Breton has gained lots of national attention since first being tracked almost five years ago. CBS

This isn’t his first trip to the Sunshine State during the chilly months — on New Year’s Day 2024, he also pinged near the city of Palm Coast.

His most famous trip, however, took place in 2023 when Breton turned his yellow tracking line into what OCEARCH called a gigantic connect-the-dots-style “self-portrait.”

It was the size of the eastern seaboard.

The great white shark’s de facto selfie included a dorsal fin that peaked off the Jersey shore, his face and mouth around Florida and the Carolinas, and his rear up by Canada. Since then, the line looks more like if Picasso had tried illustrating a potato.

Breton went viral for making a “self-portait” out of his tracking lines in 2023. Ocearch

During his 2023 jaunts, a North Dakota family visiting Fort Lauderdale spotted Breton bobbing close by to their boat.

OCEARCH has been tracking Breton since 2020 and has seen the apex predator traverse nearly 41,000 miles since, CBS reported.

He is named after Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton, where the big guy was first safely tagged, according to the conservation group.

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