Canada has been visited by the biggest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.

Contender , a male behemoth who weighs 750 kilograms and is 4.2 metres in length, was tagged with a tracking device in January off the Florida coastline near Jacksonville by researchers at OCEARCH , a non-profit organization focused on marine science and ocean conservation.

The last signal from the shark was recorded in the early morning hours of Sept. 29 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence near Quebec. The tracker only produces a signal when the shark’s dorsal fin is above water.

“Only a couple have made it that far north,” Chris Fischer, the 56-year-old OCEARCH founder and expedition leader, told the New York Post .

“An animal like that, spending the summer and fall up north — what are they d

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