Contender, the largest great white shark recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, was recently tracked off the coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks.

The largest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean is headed for a new home, and it happens to be a tourist hotspot. The 14-foot shark, known as Contender, was first tagged by OCEARCH Shark Tracker in January about 45 miles off the Florida-Georgia coast. But around the middle of ...

January 17, 2025, researchers captured and tagged a massive great white shark about 45 miles off the coast of the Florida-Georgia border. The shark, dubbed Contender, might be the largest male great white in the north Atlantic. He’s certainly the largest that we currently have eyes on.