Twenty months after researchers tagged him off the Georgia–Florida coast, Contender, the largest male white shark OCEARCH has ever tagged in the western North Atlantic, is still reporting his position. This September his tag placed him somewhere no similarly tagged shark has been seen before, off the coast of Newfoundland. How Contender Was Tagged On January 17, 2025, the … [Read more...] about World’s Largest Male Great White Shark Discovered: What Scientists Found Left Them Speechless
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This 1,600-pound ocean giant just went somewhere no other OCEARCH-tagged shark has ever been
Contender, the largest male great white shark ever tagged in the Atlantic, has just pushed into territory no OCEARCH-tracked shark has reached before — and scientists are paying close attention to why. Meet Contender Contender was tagged by the ocean research nonprofit OCEARCH on January 17, 2025, roughly 45 miles off the Florida–Georgia coast. At the time, he measured … [Read more...] about This 1,600-pound ocean giant just went somewhere no other OCEARCH-tagged shark has ever been