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A live tracker shows the gargantuan predator dubbed Contender — an homage to the vessels that the research nonprofit OCEARCH ...
The largest great white shark tagged by a marine research group in the Atlantic Ocean resurfaced off the coast of Massachusetts this week.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A great white shark weighing over 1,400 pounds is lurking off the North Carolina coast.
Contender is the largest male white shark ever caught, SPOT tagged, released and now studied in the North West Atlantic white shark population. The tag, which pings when the shark’s dorsal fin ...
The biggest male great white to be tagged in the western North Atlantic recently surfaced off the coast of Massachusetts, ...
Contender is pretty big for a male, sure. But in great white shark size contests, it's the females who take the cake.
A record-breaking great white shark was spotted swimming off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. on July 18. The shark, named ...
The largest great white shark ever recorded was tagged in January 2025. Since then, researchers have been monitoring ...
A marine research nonprofit say they have spotted their largest ever shark just off the coast of Nantucket. The massive cartilaginous fish—nicknamed “Contender” for its 13 feet, 9 inches and more than ...
OCEARCH, a non-profit research organisation that tracks marine animals, tagged the 30-year-old male great white shark named "Contender" in the waters east of Massachusetts ...
The 14-foot-long great white shark, named Contender, has been tracked by scientists at OCEARCH since January after it was tagged off the coast of Florida.
Contender, the largest male great white shark ever tagged by Ocearch in the Atlantic, was recently spotted off the coast of ...