Contender, the largest male great white shark ever tagged by OCEARCH, surfaced several miles off the Jersey Shore.

The shark traveled over 4,000 miles since it was first tagged in January 2025. See where Contender last surfaced.

OCEARCH founder Chris Fischer joins ChicagoLIVE to discuss the recent sighting of one of the largest great white sharks ever tagged off the East Coast. Fischer explains how his team safely lifts and ...

Polar plungers, beware! A 14-foot-long great white shark neared the Atlantic City shores Tuesday, according to the research group OCEARCH. Nicknamed “Contender,” he is the largest male great white ...

The white shark is most likely on the move back down to Florida where waters are warmer and there are more food sources, but ...

The largest great white shark tagged, sampled and released by OCEARCH, a nonprofit organization that studies sharks, sent in a "rare ping" for the first time since July. Researchers at OCEARCH ...

A 9 foot, 8 inch white shark recently pinged off the coast of Beaufort, North Carolina, and it wasn’t just any shark on the ...