One of the largest male great white sharks ever recorded in the northwest Atlantic has made a splash near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

January 17, 2025, researchers captured and tagged a massive great white shark about 45 miles off the coast of the Florida-Georgia border. The shark, dubbed Contender, might be the largest male great white in the north Atlantic. He’s certainly the largest that we currently have eyes on.

The largest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean is headed for a new home, and it happens to be a tourist hotspot. The 14-foot shark, known as Contender, was first tagged by OCEARCH Shark Tracker in January about 45 miles off the Florida-Georgia coast. But around the middle of ...