Biggest great white shark ever recorded in Atlantic tracked off North Carolina coast

By SWNS

 

The biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the Atlantic is on the move – towards a popular US vacation hotspot. 

Contender, the 14-foot beast, was tagged in the North Atlantic by OCEARCH in January – a non-profit organization that conducts research on large marine animals – 45 miles off the Florida-Georgia coast, off Jacksonville.

And after going off the radar for nearly a month – the tracker only transmits locating signal when the shark’s dorsal fin is briefly exposed above the water’s surface – last week it surfaced north, off Pamlico Sound in North Carolina.

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The beast appears to have made a dart for the north over the last few weeks.

Measuring around 1,653 pounds, Contender is estimated to be around 30 years old…

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