The shark traveled over 4,000 miles since it was first tagged in January 2025. See where Contender last surfaced.

This one was near Southern Australia. Just before 5:00 p.m. on June 7 of this year, Contender was hanging out off the coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Contender is a great white shark-and not ...

Contender, the largest male great white shark ever tagged by OCEARCH, surfaced several miles off the Jersey Shore.

One of the scientists involved in tracking Contender – the biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the Atlantic – has revealed how to escape a close encounter. Contender, the 14-foot ...

(WJW) – Researchers who’ve been tracking a white shark up and down the east coast since the beginning of the year report that after months of silence, he’s back in a “hotspot” for white shark activity ...

The predator, named Contender, has traveled more than 4,300 miles since January, recently migrating south from Canadian ...

A single sighting of a great white shark is enough to get most people out of the water. But six? That’s the stuff of nightmares (or movies). OCEARCH, an ocean data collection agency, has indicated ...