Contender, a 13-foot-9-inch, 1,653-pound White Shark, is traveling in deep waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach and Wilmington.
Ocearch scientists tagged the mammoth male shark in January 2025 off the coast of Florida and Georgia. He is the largest Ocearch-tagged shark in the Western North Atlantic, according to a Facebook post.
Contender had pinged closer to Georgia’s coast in mid-March, but shot out to deep waters toward the end of the month…