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.

At 13.8 feet long, the great white shark isn't the longest ever discovered, but at 1,653 pounds it's clearly large enough to hold a weight class of its own.

Here is an update on the location of Contender, the biggest male great white shark ever recorded in Atlantic Ocean, after he was discovered off the US coast