{"id":84834,"date":"2026-07-26T08:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84834"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:33:22","slug":"monster-20-foot-great-white-named-big-rose-spotted-as-shark-sightings-surge-1000-off-us-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/monster-20-foot-great-white-named-big-rose-spotted-as-shark-sightings-surge-1000-off-us-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster 20-Foot Great White Named &#8216;Big Rose&#8217; Spotted As Shark Sightings Surge 1,000% Off US Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Daily Mail (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/07\/24\/16\/110208657-15994425-Moments_later_a_gigantic_great_white_emerged_from_the_depths_and-a-14_1784906634418.jpg\" alt=\"Moments later, a gigantic great white emerged from the depths and closed in on the boat, wrapping its jaws around the bait and dragging it through the water\" width=\"469\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A team of shark experts ventured to a remote island off Nova Scotia in search of a mysterious population of enormous great whites measuring up to 20 feet long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Their ultimate target was \u2018Big Rose,\u2019 an elusive three-ton female believed to be one of the largest great white sharks ever encountered in the North Atlantic. The expedition unfolded as great white encounters between Cape Cod and Nova Scotia have reportedly surged by 1,000 percent over the past decade, with researchers increasingly observing what Hammerschlag described as \u2018very large, massive great whites.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mail (caution: tabloid): A team of shark experts ventured to a remote island off Nova Scotia in search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84835,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84834\/revisions\/84835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}