One of the largest male great white sharks ever recorded in the northwest Atlantic has made a splash near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

The largest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean is headed for a new home, and it happens to be a tourist hotspot. The 14-foot shark, known as Contender, was first tagged by OCEARCH Shark Tracker in January about 45 miles off the Florida-Georgia coast. But around the middle of ...

January 17, 2025, researchers captured and tagged a massive great white shark about 45 miles off the coast of the Florida-Georgia border. The shark, dubbed Contender, might be the largest male great white in the north Atlantic. He’s certainly the largest that we currently have eyes on.