A non-profit organization focused on monitoring and conserving marine life is tracking several large sharks off the coast of ...

A ping means the Smart Position and Temperature Transmitting Tag (SPOT) attached to the shark’s dorsal fin moved above the water's surface and sent location information to the OCEARCH shark tracker.

"Contender is the largest male white shark the OCEARCH team has sampled, tagged, released and studied to date in the NW Atlantic white shark population! So he's pretty special," OCEARCH Chief ...

Contender is the biggest male great white shark ever tagged by the nonprofit research group OCEARCH. It's not candy or flowers, but a massive 1,653-pound great white shark showed some love for ...

A 13-foot 9-inch shark, nicknamed "Contender" by the OCEARCH scientists who tagged it, pinged off the Indian River County coast, northeast of Vero Beach at 10:09 a.m. Feb. 24. Contender is the ...

According to The Florida Times-Union, OCEARCH — the aforementioned nonprofit — tagged the shark on Jan. 17. The great white, which was later given the name “Contender,” clocked in at a ...

A research group has tracked a large great white shark off the coast of Georgia and Florida. OCEARCH reports the shark, named Contender, pinged 45 miles offshore on January 17. The male white ...

Again. And again. Contender, a 1,653-pound white shark – the largest male tagged OCEARCH scientists to date – pinged four times off the Volusia County coast as the Philadelphia Eagles prepared ...

A 9-foot, 11-inch great white shark, tagged by OCEARCH, had not sent location pings in over a year. The shark, named Ormond, suddenly and repeatedly pinged off Florida's Panhandle this week.