10-foot, 600-point nice white shark swimming close to Asbury Park

A virtually 10-foot, 600-pound nice white shark nicknamed “Quint,” has been poking across the Jersey Shore for the final two days, maybe getting right here early to beat all of the Memorial Day visitors.

He was final noticed a number of miles east of Asbury Park early Tuesday morning, after first popping up 110 miles east of Atlantic City on Monday.

Despite the similarity, researchers from OCEARCH who tagged the shark didn’t identify him after Quint, the grizzled shark searching captain of the Orca from the film “Jaws.”

Instead, he was named in honor of Quinton White, founding government director of the Marine Science Research Institute (MSRI) at Jacksonville University in Florida. OCEARCH mentioned White has been instrumental in pioneering the collaboration between MSRI and them, “helping bridge science, education and real-world marine research.”

Quint has one other distinction.

He was the a centesimal nice white shark tagged by OCEARCH, a non-profit analysis group, that has been finding out the apex predator for over a dozen years alongside the East Coast and elsewhere.

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OCEARCH has been utilizing satellite tv for pc tags to assemble migration routes and organic information from the sharks to raised perceive the life cycle of one of many ocean’s apex predators. With the information, OCEARCH can map important shark habitats, and inform future conservation efforts to assist defend the species.

“Tagging 100 felt impossible. But inch by inch, with grit, teamwork, and belief, we got there,” mentioned OCEARCH founder Chris Fischer. “We’re doing this so our great-grandchildren inherit an ocean full of life.”

On July 23, 2025, Quint who is a sub-adult male, was tagged and released in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. He measured 9 feet 8 inches in length and weighed an estimated 587 pounds at the time of tagging by the Tancook Islands Marine Field Station Team, in collaboration with the OCEARCH. 

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Quint’s migration route took him down the southeast coast of the U.S. like a lot of the sharks tagged by OCEARCH have proven to do. He stayed far offshore of the continental shelf as he handed New Jersey.

Many OCEEARCH tagged sharks winter off the southeast coast between the Carolinas and Florida, however he did not cease there. He swam across the Florida Keys to the Florida panhandle to the shores of Panama City, the place he pinged on Jan. 5.

A “ping” occurs when the satellite tag on a shark’s fin is above the surface long enough — about 90 seconds — for its location to be picked up by satellite. OCEARCH then uses that data to track the shark’s movements on its global shark tracker app.

Quint is the second OCEARCH-tagged great white shark to ping off the New Jersey coast during this year’s spring migration of the large sharks. The first was Nori, who reached Atlantic City on May 6.

Nori last pinged on Sunday east of Kennebunk, Maine. Quint appears to be headed in the same direction. Most of the OCEARCH-tagged great white sharks have shown migration routes to New England and Canadian waters in the summer where the seal populations are concentrated.

When Jersey Shore native Dan Radel is not reporting the news, you can find him in a college classroom where he is a history professor. Reach him at dradel@gannettnj.com.