George the Giant Shark Visits Florida for the Winter

George the Great White Shark has surfaced off Highland Beach on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Ocearch.org screenshot

George is a great white shark but he isn’t really a giant—he was only 10 feet long and weighed just over 700 pounds when a shark research group tagged him in the waters off Nantucket, Massachusetts, in October 2016 (though he probably weighs over half a ton, now.)