The white shark, named Contender, was originally tagged on Jan. 17, 2025, approximately 45 miles off the coast of the Florida-Georgia border and has generally traveled southward along the Gulf Stream.

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While Contender is the largest male caught and tagged along the East Coast by OCEARCH, it tagged a bigger female white shark in 2020, off Nova Scotia. That shark, named Nukumi, was 17 feet, 2 inches, ...

The shark, named Contender, was tagged off the Florida-Georgia border, measuring nearly 14 feet and weighing 1,653 pounds. Contender will play a key role in advancing shark research and ocean ...

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