Researchers first tagged the 13.8-foot-long (4.6 meters) shark off the coast of Florida and Georgia.
A record-breaking male great white shark traveled up the United States' East Coast since it was first tagged.with real sharks. Their testing revealed that wetsuits made with these special materials can mitigate damage from large white and tiger shark bites—“large” meaning up to 3 meters, or around 9 feet.
But those results are suddenly much less reassuring in light of today’s story.caught and tagged Contender—a 13.8-foot-long adult great white shark weighing an estimated 1,653 pounds —45 miles off the coast of Florida and Georgia. The tag is now allowing scientists and theto monitor Contender’s whereabouts. Disturbingly, however, it revealed that the beast spent time near popular beach destinations along the United States’ East Coast this summer.“Contender is the largest male white shark ever caught, SPOT tagged, released and now studied in the NW Atlantic white shark population!” OCEARCH wrote in a social mediaearlier this year. The video shows researchers leaning over the side of the boat, precariously close to the massive great white they had pulled up against the side of the boat with ropes. and reeled in to the side of the boat, “we measure it, collect samples for health, reproduction, diet, nutrition, toxicology and genetic studies, perform an ultrasound, and then attach two types of satellite tags to track their movements,” Harley Newton, OCEARCH’s chief veterinarian and senior veterinary scientist, told. One reveals the shark’s GPS location only when the animal is at the surface, meaning sometimes it disappears for periods of time.After hanging out along Florida’s east coast until mid-March, Contender bobbed around North Carolina from early April to early June, including the popular area of Pamlico Sound. It then disappeared again until July 17, when it stopped by in the area of Cape Cod. On July 18, it was around 100 miles from Nantucket. Maybe it was seeking to inspire a fifth Jaws movie.While Contender is certainly a big boy, “male white sharks don’t get anywhere near as big as the females,” John Chisholm, an adjunct scientist at the New England Aquarium, told theof 15 to 16 feet long , while adult males reach an average of 11 to 13 feet . Deep Blue—a famous great white so large—was 20 feet long back in 2015 and one of the largest sharks ever filmed. (If Contender is an extra-large shark, does that make Deep Blue an extraContender last popped up today in Canada’s Jacques Cartier Passage, north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Needless to say, I won’t be trusting any material marketed as bite-resistant any time soon.Sunken World War II Debris Has Become Surprisingly Useful for Sea Creatures A new study has found evidence to suggest that warheads tossed into the sea can serve as viable habitat for several species of marine life, but that doesn't mean we should leave them at the bottom of the ocean.The winners of the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year competition captured the ocean and its wildlife like you’ve never seen before.Little is known about how leopard sharks mate in the wild. Rare footage shows a female doing the deed back-to-back with two different males.Nearly Every Whale Shark at This Tourist Destination Bears Human-Made Scars
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