{"id":773234,"date":"2026-07-01T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773234\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:12:34","slug":"contender-the-largest-male-great-white-shark-ever-recorded-in-the-atlantic-is-on-the-move-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773234\/","title":{"rendered":"Contender, the largest male great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic, is on the move again"},"content":{"rendered":"\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

NORTH CAROLINA \u2014 Contender<\/a>, the largest male great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic, is on the move again following his latest location ping in the Outer Banks<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n

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Weighing in at almost 1,700 pounds and measuring nearly 14 feet, his latest Z-ping went off on Thursday, June 25, according to OCEARCH’s global shark<\/a> tracker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Contender, <\/p>\n

Contender, the 14-foot, 1600 pound great white shark on the day he was tagged by OCEARCH in January 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

First tagged in January 2025 off the Florida<\/a>–Georgia<\/a> coast, he has continued providing real-time data that supports migration research and helps advance future ocean<\/a> conservation efforts.<\/p>\n

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\"Latest <\/p>\n

Latest ping, Z-ping, and tracking for Contender<\/p>\n

(OCEARCH)<\/p>\n

According to OCEARCH, when a shark is tagged, a SPOT satellite tag is attached to its dorsal fin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The device utilizes two copper contacts that form a closed circuit underwater. When the shark<\/a> breaks the surface, the circuit is broken, which “wakes up” the tag to transmit a location signal.<\/p>\n

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“If the shark stays at the surface for 10, 20, 30 seconds, we’ll get a good fix on where the shark is,” OCEARCH Chief Scientist Dr. Robert Hueter said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, if it is only a quick, transient transmission, it is classified as a Z-ping. This tells researchers that the shark surfaced, but the signal was too brief to calculate its coordinates.<\/p>\n

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\"Contender <\/p>\n

Contender the great white shark being tagged in the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

“It\u2019s really a miracle of science<\/a>,” Hueter said.<\/p>\n

Contender and other sharks and sea animals like him can be tracked in real-time using the free OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker app<\/a>.<\/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":[2837,49,48,22865,21231,66,200466,323],"class_list":["post-773234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-north-carolina","tag-ocean","tag-science","tag-stay22","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773234","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=773234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773234\/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=773234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}