Great White Shark 'Mary Lee' Visiting Virginia Waters

SOMEWHERE OFF THE VIRGINIA COAST -- She's ba-aack! Mary Lee, a 16-foot Great White Shark, has returned to the Virginia coast.

Friday night, the shark's dorsal fin broke the surface of the water off the Virginia coastline, south of Wallops Island, sending a signal to the satellite that's been tracking her zig zags up and down the Atlantic since 2012.

Mary Lee first appeared off the Virginia coast on Thursday — the first she had been spotted since a ping off of the coast in the Northeast on May 14.

Scientists with OCEARCH are excited to see the wanderings of Great White shark Mary Lee, a whopping 3,456-pounder. After tagging the shark Sept. 17, 2012 off Cape Cod, they study her habits using a device that sends pings to a satellite.

You can track Mary Lee's journey at OCEARCH's website.

Mary Lee has her own Twitter account with more than 97,000 followers.

The location where she was tagged is near Martha’s Vineyard, where “Jaws” was filmed 40 years ago last summer. The film featured a Great White that terrorized a beach community.

In 2015, there were 98 shark attacks worldwide, six of them fatal, according to a report by CNN.

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Mary Lee is named for researcher Chris Fischer’s mother. “My parents have done so much. I was waiting and waiting for a special shark to name after her and this is truly the most historic and legendary fish I have ever been a part of and it set the tone for Cape Cod,“ says Fischer on the OCEARCH Web site.

Watch raw video here of Mary Lee getting tagged by researchers:

Photo: OCEARCH.org

With reporting by Mary Ann Barton