One of the largest great white sharks ever tagged sent in a "rare ping" for the first time since July, according to experts.

Researchers at OCEARCH, a nonprofit organization that studies sharks, received the location of the massive 13-foot, 9-inch, 1,653-pound great white called Contender on Sept. 29, the first ping since July 18.

In just two months, Contender traveled from off the shore of Cape Cod , Massachusetts, to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, northeast of Anticosta Island, Canada, covering at least 857 miles, John Tyminski, a senior data scientist for the project, stated in a video posted to Instagram . OCEARCH doesn't usually receive tags from that region.

Contender, the largest shark ever tagged by OCEARCH, was originally tagged in January offshore of the Florida-Georgia borde

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