NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A 12-foot great white shark has been tracked off the Louisiana coast, according to new data from the nonprofit research group OCEARCH.
The shark, named Ernst, pinged in the Gulf on Jan. 30 near the Chandeleur Islands east of New Orleans, according to OCEARCH’s public tracker.
Ernst is a 12-foot (365 cm), 1,009-pound female white shark tagged Oct. 4, 2025, off the coast of Nova Scotia during OCEARCH’s field research with the Tancook Islands Marine Field Station…