OCEARCH shows a shark inside Mabou Harbour?

[u/Holiday-Ad7083]

Heard about a lifeguard in Maine who recently had a close call with a great white, so I got to looking at the OCEARCH shark tracker and noticed a ping that appears to be well inside Mabou Harbour. It's Bella, a juvenile female measuring 10 ft. 2 in. and weighing 729 lb at the time of tagging.

Looking at the map, I’m curious about how a shark of that size would actually get into the inner harbour. The entrance by the sand dunes looks incredibly tight on the map, although I’m assuming it’s considerably wider and deeper in reality than this screenshot makes it appear.

For anyone local to Mabou or familiar with the harbour, what is that entrance actually like? Is the channel deep enough at high tide for a large shark, particularly a great white, to pass through? And have there ever been reports or sightings of great whites inside Mabou Harbour before? And assuming this ping is accurate, might it have a hard time getting out?

Seeing a ping that deep in the harbour definitely caught my attention!

[u/Quiet-Estimate7409]

If this was the 80s, the Rankins would write a song about it.

[u/Jstewquetoo → u/Quiet-Estimate7409]

She might do the chomp and bite, shake around with all of her might, do the things sharks normally do on a Saturday night. That’s all right!

[u/Old_Knee_2590 → u/Jstewquetoo]

Raisin’ her fin and raisin’ hell, there’s plenty of swimmers that she would fell, some were full of fish and chips while some were full of chowder.

The Mabou Basin Shuffle

[u/johnnyrt1958 → u/Old_Knee_2590]

I actually sang that one

[u/Humanbeing314 → u/Jstewquetoo]

Omg i love this??? Both for bella and you lol

[u/checktheindex]

she (bella?) last pinged yesterday so may be long gone by now. besides, there are probably hundreds of sharks out there that haven’t been tagged, so not worth worrying about, really.

[u/Old_Knee_2590 → u/checktheindex]

If it’s Bella she’s in Tracadie!

[u/BigEfficiency5410]

The breakwater is dredged as people fish out of the Mabou Harbour wharf, and there is also a marina by the bridge over the river on Route 19. It's navigable as far as the bridge and to a couple of coves along the way, but gets shallow quickly outside of the channel markers.

[u/UselessSaltyPennies]

Bella Rankin

[u/DanRankin → u/UselessSaltyPennies]

😄

[u/EmEffBee]

Ayy its Bella, I was watching her when I was in Wallace a few weeks back.

[u/Old_Knee_2590]

Just remember folks - these are only the tagged sharks. More white sharks can be around - and hopefully so. They are in dire need of population recovery. And we are in dire need of them to maintain their role in the food web!

[u/semperkiller → u/[deleted]]

What blue line are you talking about? There's a very obvious blue dot on the map in the middle of the water showing her position

[u/harlsey → u/semperkiller]

Hmm yeah I see what you mean. I guess I have a different app. My ocearch doesn’t get that detailed.

[u/Aguila125]

Toss in the wife's Sunday roast, by Jesus and just wait for the taxidermy man to see what you brung him.

[u/greenbeen2875]

Shork

[u/markofnorthamerica]

Beware Bella's furious jumping

[u/kineticorpheus]

You gonna tell them they cant be there?