The largest tagged great white shark on record in the Atlantic Ocean resurfaced off the coast of North Carolina this week, scientists said

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.

A massive great white shark named Contender, the largest male ever tagged by marine research organization OCEARCH, was recently tracked just 22 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Measuring nearly 14 feet long,