Jaws times two: Great white shark named Miss Costa cruises Lowcountry waters

Move over, Mary Lee. You’ve got company.

Another great white shark is lurking off the coast, and she’s a speedy swimmer.

Just one month after OCEARCH tagged Miss Costa near Nantucket, Mass., she pinged her location off the Lowcountry coast.

Miss Costa is a young, 12-foot, 1,600-pound great white shark named by OCEARCH in honor of its longtime partner Costa Sunglasses.

Miss Costa is a speedy shark — since she was tagged on Sept. 23 in Massachusetts, she has quickly cruised south, pinging her location off the New Jersey coast on Sept. 27, then again around Virginia Beach on Oct.1. On Oct. 17, she made it to the Myrtle Beach area.

According to OCEARCH’s tracking, she’s been hanging around the Lowcountry coast since Oct. 20. She last pinged her location off the coast of Hilton Head Island on Oct. 24.

She is one of four great white sharks being tracked by OCEARCH through Expedition Nantucket, an initiative to provide a broader understanding of the ecology, physiology, and behavior of the north Atlantic great white.

Miss Costa could be sharing the Lowcountry waters with OCEARCH’s most famous shark, Mary Lee, the beloved fish with more than 101,000 Twitter followers, who last pinged her location off the coast between Tybee Island and Hilton Head Island in late September.

You can track Miss Costa, Mary Lee, and other sharks’ adventures through the Atlantic here.

This story was originally published October 27, 2016 at 1:05 PM with the headline "Jaws times two: Great white shark named Miss Costa cruises Lowcountry waters."