But don’t cue up the “Jaws” theme just yet. Some 12 hours later, the same shark’s tracker said the creature was in the waters well off the southern shore of Long Island — a discrepancy that led Ocearch to re-examine whether the shark had ever been in the sound to begin with. “He either was in the sound or he was never in the sound,” John Kanaly, an Ocearch spokesman, said. “We have calculated that he wouldn’t have had time to go all the way around the island and back.”If all of Ocearch’s data were accurate, the shark would have had to cover close to 200 miles in half a day — a trip that Mr. Kanaly said was not likely. He said the discrepancy was probably caused by issues with the shark’s tracker.

Source: New York Times May 21, 2019 19:52 UTC