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White shark named Contender is the largest ever tagged by OCEARCH

Massive great white shark named Contender pings off Carolinas

White shark Contender has sent in a rare ping from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, a region where we don’t often see signals from OCEARCH-tagged sharks. In this Tracking the Science update, OCEARCH Senior Data Scientist John Tyminski explains why this update is so important, what it tells us about shark behavior, and how every ping helps expand our understanding of white sharks in the Northwest Atlantic. Each movement adds to the bigger picture of shark science—contributing to open-source data that in