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Two great white sharks in the Gulf heading back north for summer

The old fish are coming back home for the summer.

Two great white sharks that spent the winter in the Gulf are heading back north.

The massive 12-foot, 1600-pounder Scot and smaller 10-foot Penny weighing in at 522 pounds, were pinged near St. Augustine, Florida, this week as they migrate back with the rest of the snowbirds, the Florida Times-Union reported.

Great white sharks in the Gulf are heading back north for the summer.
Penny, a female juvenile great white shark

The creatures are being monitored by Ocearch, a Jacksonville, Florida-based shark research nonprofit, which attached tags to their dorsal fins that send pings with their locations when they hit the water’s surface.

The duo traveled around the Sunshine State earlier this year.

Scot, who was named after the people of Nova Scotia, was tracked off Palm Bay on March 29 and around the Florida Keys Feb. 10 and 28.

Penny, who was given her moniker after Salty Penny Canvas in Morehead City, NC, was tracked off Fort Myers Beach on March 17, off Marco Island on Jan. 20 and Jan. 6, off Sarasota’s coast on Jan. 11 and near Cape Coral on Jan. 15.

The creatures are being monitored by OCEARCH, a nonprofit that conducts shark research. OCEARCH

Great white sharks are known to migrate south when the water temperatures get colder and their sources of food diminish, then head back to the Northeast as the warm weather returns.

Ocearch even provides an online map, so people can track their tagged sharks’ travels.

The organization currently has tags on 371 sharks, including 123 great white sharks.

Four of the tagged fish were spotted in the waters surrounding New York and New Jersey in May.

Last summer, at least five people were bitten by sharks in Long Island waters, prompting the state to deploy shark-spotting drones across the beaches throughout the region, including New York City.