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Great White Shark Lydia being tagged off the coast of Florida on March 2, 2013.

Why this Great White Shark has fans and followers around the world

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It’s her ocean — we’re just swimming in it. A Great White Shark named Lydia had a tracking device attached to her dorsal fin last year. Since then, she’s logged over 27,000 miles and now she even has her own Twitter account.

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