The great white shark, named Contender, is nearly 14ft long and weighs more than 1,650lbs. The hulking fish has been pinged in several locations off North Carolina and Maine as he headed north for the summer, with Contender’s last known location located off Nova Scotia in Canada on 11 July.
Contender is the largest male ever tagged in the Atlantic by Ocearch, a shark research organization, which first attached a satellite tag to his dorsal fin in January last year. The giant predator, thought to be 30 years old, shuttles between Florida and Canada in his seasonal migrations. Ocearch said it is confident that Contender, named after a research boat, is now summering in Canada.
Excerpt: THE GUARDIAN : CONTENDER PINGING
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