During the summer months, they will move up into the coastal New England area. When water temperatures begin to cool again in the fall, sandbars start their return trip to warmer southern waters along the coast of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In the North Atlantic part of their range, shortfin makos migrate from the Sargasso Sea in the south, up towards the northeastern coast of the U.S. in early summer as northern waters warm up. The depth of the ocean's water is another factor affecting water temperatures and where shark's live. Examples of shallow water sharks are the nurse, the hammerhead, the sandbar, the great white and the tiger shark.
Pelagic sharks are shortfin makos and whale sharks.
Deep water sharks, such as catsharks, goblin sharks and megamouth sharks, stay in cold water all year round.