Like many snowbirds, the massive shark Contender is gorging on fatty foods up north in preparation to go south to Florida for the winter.
The biggest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic has resurfaced just off the coast of Canada – where he is plumping up on seals ahead of winter.
Contender, a 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.
His tracker only transmits a locating signal when the shark’s dorsal fin is briefly exposed above the water’s surface.
And last week it ‘pinged’ from the far northern reaches of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, right off the Labrador Peninsula in Canada – making him “one of the furthest northern pinging sharks that we’ve had” say researchers.
He could have been a contender…
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Contender was previously spotted off Nantucket about two months ago.
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