Meet the Most Famous Great White Shark on Twitter - Mary Lee

By Staff Reporter - 18 May '15 22:33PM

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live as a shark? Well now you can find out after a shark has taken over the Internet after signing up for Twitter.

Mary Lee the Shark, or as she is known on Twitter, @MaryLeeShark, has nearly 60,000 followers and nearly 2,000 tweets. She is a 16-foot-long, 3,456-pound great white shark and has become quite famous in the last few weeks thanks to the Ocearch shark tracker program, and social media.

Her OCEARCH profile explains her namesake: Mary Lee was named after OCEARCH expedition leader 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," Fischer said.

You can track the path of these sharks, along with others, at this link: https://www.ocearch.org/#SharkTracker

"Oh heyyyyy.... you're right by my house, come by for a nightcap?" invited one recent Twitter commenter as she popped up off the coast of Long Island, New York.

"I would settle for an ice bag to put on my aching Twitter fin. -:()" Mary Lee replied.

"What do you do during Shark Week?" another recent commenter asked. "Swim. Eat. Tweet. Etc. Exhausting. -;()," Mary Lee responded.