{"id":203466,"date":"2025-10-10T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203466\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:07:08","slug":"largest-great-white-shark-on-record-resurfaces-off-canadian-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203466\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest great white shark on record resurfaces off Canadian coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Contender,<\/a> <\/p>\n

Contender, a 14-foot, 1,600 pound adult male great white shark was tagged by OCEARCH in January near the Florida\/Georgia line. The nonproft works to research ocean life by tracking their locations throughout their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

POINTE-PARENT, Quebec \u2013 Contender, the largest male great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic, is on the move and was recently pinged off the coast of Canada<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OCEARCH<\/a>, the company that tagged Contender, recorded his last ping on Sept. 29 south of Pointe-Parent in the province of Quebec.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Contender is nearly 14 feet long and is estimated to weigh 1,653 pounds, according to OCEARCH.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This makes him OCEARCH’s largest recorded great white male shark in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

LARGEST MALE GREAT WHITE SHARK EVER RECORDED SPOTTED NEAR FAMOUS VACATION HOTSPOT<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Video<\/a> <\/p>\n

Video from OCEARCH shows Contender, a massive adult great white shark being tagged off the Florida\/Georgia coast in January 2025. Contender is the largest recorded great white shark in the Atlantic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First tagged off the Florida<\/a>\/Georgia coast in January, Contender has been moving north since.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His last location ping was in July off the coast of Massachusetts<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A month before that, he was recorded roughly 22 miles off the shores of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Contender <\/p>\n

Contender the great white shark being tagged in the Atlantic Ocean in January 2025.<\/p>\n

(OCEARCH \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n

During the summer, white sharks like Contender will migrate north, seeking cooler waters and rich food sources in the Northwest Atlantic, according to OCEARCH.<\/p>\n

Typically, as fall begins, the sharks begin migrating back south toward the Southeastern<\/a> U.S. where the water is warmer.<\/p>\n

“The sharks\u2019 incredible ability to travel long distances allows them to navigate vast ocean spaces efficiently, moving between productive feeding grounds and warmer winter refuges,” OCEARCH said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Contender follows the typical trend of other white sharks, we should see his next ping much further south, perhaps near where he was first tagged near the Florida\/Georgia<\/a> coastline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contender, a 14-foot, 1,600 pound adult male great white shark was tagged by OCEARCH in January near the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-203466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}