Scientists have tagged a giant male great white shark off the East Coast. The researchers said "Contender" is the largest male white shark ever caught and studied in the northwest Atlantic.

The largest male great white shark tagged by OCEARCH scientists has surfaced again off the North Florida coast.

Contender is a white shark who weighs in at 1,653 pounds. At 14 feet long, he is the largest male white shark ever tagged by ...

And while even the smaller sharks can be fairly creepy, it tends to be that the bigger the shark, the scarier it is. So ...

“Contender is the largest male white shark ever caught, SPOT tagged, released and now studied in the NW Atlantic white shark population,” OCEARCH said in a Feb. 4 Facebook post. “The SPOT ...

OCEARCH said the tag on Contender needs to be exposed to the air for around 90 seconds, to triangulate the shark’s location accurately. The battery is said to last around five years, but its ...

nicknamed Contender by the OCEARCH scientists who recently tagged it, pinged southeast of Jacksonville Beach twice on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 11:35 a.m. and 12:37 p.m. When the satellite tag affixed to ...

The satellite tag attached to the shark's dorsal fin by OCEARCH researchers surfaced and sent a ping with location information on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 9:55 a.m. According to OCEARCH Chief Marketing ...

OCEARCH, a non-profit research organization, uses satellite tags attached to sharks' dorsal fins to track their movements. Data collected from tagged sharks like Contender helps researchers better ...