Panic over monstrous 13ft great white shark ‘Breton’ spotted near Myrtle Beach

A 1,400-pound great white shark was tracked just off the shore of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, earlier this week, causing anxiety for some residents.

The nonprofit shark locator OCEARCH pinged the 13-foot shark, named Breton, approximately 60 miles offshore.

The shark was originally tagged near Nova Scotia on Sept. 12, 2020.

Data from two months ago pinged Breton near Florida.

“Breton is somewhat of an anomaly. While the rest of our actively pinging white sharks are off the Northeast United States or Atlantic Canada, Breton remains in the warm waters off the Southeast US,” OCEARCH said on its Twitter account. “This is the latest we’ve seen one of our white sharks stay this far south in the Western North Atlantic. Typically we notice our white sharks start their migration north from mid-May to June.”

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Luke Pascoe, 17, had been spearfishing off Mistaken Island, near Goode Beach in Albany, when the shark bit him, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development said in a statement. The teenager told that he looked down and spotted the shark “cruising in fr ont” of him.

“It took one turn, had a look at me, took another turn, and on that last turn it just came straight for me and .ʙɪᴛ me on the legs,” Pascoe told the news outlet, who said he then went into shock.

“You don’t really realize you’ve been ʙɪᴛten by a shark,” he said. “So I gritted my teeth and kicked as hard as I could with both legs just trying to get back to shore or at least to a point where I felt the shark couldn’t get me anymore.”

The ocean tracker notes the ocean region of Myrtle Beach sees approximately 20 different types of sharks throughout the course of the year. Although he is large, Breton is not the biggest shark to be pinged in that area.