The biggest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic has resurfaced just off the coast of Canada – where he is plumping up on seals ahead of winter.

Contender, a 14-foot beast, was tagged in the North Atlantic by OCEARCH in January – a non-profit organization that conducts research on large marine animals – 45 miles off the Florida-Georgia coast, off Jacksonville.

His tracker only transmits a locating signal when the shark’s dorsal fin is briefly exposed above the water’s surface. 6

And last week it ‘pinged’ from the far northern reaches of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, right off the Labrador Peninsula in Canada – making him “one of the furthest northern pinging sharks that we’ve had” say researchers.

The 1,653-pound creature, estimated to be around 30 years old, is in the

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