A 9-foot, 8-inch white shark recently pinged off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina, and it wasn’t just any shark on the move.

OCEARCH, a global non-profit dedicated to ocean and marine conservation through data collection, routinely tags marine life and tracks their journey in the ocean.

The behemoth sub-adult apex predator became the 100th tagged white shark in OCEARCH’s Global Shark Tracker in July, and earned a special name to commemorate the milestone.

Named in honor of Dr. Quinton White of Jacksonville University’s Marine Science Research Insititute, “Quint” was first tagged in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia and, like many snowbirds this time of year, began his migration south along the East Coast to warmer waters and pinged off of the Carolina Coast on Nov. 14.

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