Going for a dip in the ocean? Beware the Great White Shark. Where they’re thriving...

You're gonna need a bigger boat – the Great White Shark is back. 

After being demonized in the 1970s and 80s, great white fishing and hunting regulations were implemented in 1997. According to NOAA, those regulations are working. The great whites are recovering – and even thriving in some waters. Don’t panic just yet. According to NOAA fisheries shark researcher Tobey Curtis, only four fatalities have been attributed to great white sharks in all of history on the Atlantic seaboard. 

So where should you beware? Great white sharks are seasonal travelers, moving up and down the U.S. East Coast at different times of year. They spend the winter months south of North Carolina, then start heading north in the late spring. The West Coast in not off the shark hook. There are an estimated 2,400 great whites off the coast of central California, perhaps several times more than that, according to some experts.