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A great white shark named Contender is the largest male ever tagged by the research group OCEARCH.

Contender was tagged off the Georgia-Florida border and has since traveled over 3,200 miles.

The shark recently pinged in a rare location in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada.

OCEARCH is a nonprofit organization that tags and tracks sharks to gather data for scientific research.

The and released by the nonprofit research group is making waves again, this time with a location.

The 13-foot, 9-inch, 1,653-pound shark, nicknamed , was tagged in the waters off the Florida-Georgia border in January 2025.

Shortly after, Contender toured the east coast of Florida.

The massive animal first surfaced in Sunshine State waters on Jan. 26, 2025, pinging three times off the Fernan

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