There have been a number of other reports of shark incidents in recent days – including a nine-year-old girl nearly had her hand bitten off near Boca Grande, Florida.

A 13-foot 9-inch shark has been spotted off the coast of North Carolina after swimming nearly 1,900 miles since January.

OCEARCH's tracking has shown most great white sharks spend winter off the southeastern United States before migrating to New England and Canadian waters for the summer.

Dr Harley Newton, chief scientist and veterinarian for OCEARCH, from Jacksonville, Florida, has dedicated her career to studying sharks - including 14ft Contender ...

One of the scientists involved in tracking Contender - the biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the ...

The largest male white shark ever tagged by the research group OCEARCH is close to the coast of North Carolina as it migrates ...

The largest tagged great white shark on record in the Atlantic Ocean resurfaced off the coast of North Carolina this week, ...

Using location tagging and track-line filters on OCEARCH's tracker, we can confirm there have been four sharks who were identified and tagged off the Florida/Georgia coast since the New Year ...

According to its tracker, the animal has traveled 989 miles since being tagged. OCEARCH named the shark after in honor of Dr. Christopher Dold of SeaWorld, "a key figure in ocean conservation. Dr.

Ocearch Senior Veterinary Scientist Dr. Harley Newton joins FOX Weather to talk about the recent shark encounters her team has had tagging sharks off the coast of Florida.