1,650-Pound Great White Contender Resurfaces After Months Missing
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Updated · AS USA · Jul 20
1,650-Pound Great White Contender Resurfaces After Months Missing
1 articles · Updated · AS USA · Jul 20
Summary
A satellite ping has detected Contender again off the eastern United States, confirming the giant great white remains active in the North Atlantic after months without a signal.
OCEARCH says the shark measures about 13 feet 9 inches and weighs roughly 1,650 pounds, making it the largest male great white shark ever recorded.
Researchers could not pinpoint its exact location, but Contender has traveled thousands of miles over the past year along migration routes off New Jersey, Massachusetts, the Carolinas and into Canadian waters.
The renewed signal gives scientists fresh tracking data on a species listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN and threatened by overfishing, accidental capture and black-market trade in shark parts.