Massive white shark that visited Florida sends rare ping. Where is it?

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A great white shark named Contender is the largest male ever tagged by the research group OCEARCH.

Contender was tagged off the Georgia-Florida border and has since traveled over 3,200 miles.

The shark recently pinged in a rare location in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada.

OCEARCH is a nonprofit organization that tags and tracks sharks to gather data for scientific research.

The largest male great white shark ever tagged and released by the nonprofit research group OCEARCH is making waves again, this time with a rare ping location.

The 13-foot, 9-inch, 1,653-pound shark, nicknamed Contender , was tagged in the waters off the Florida-Georgia border in January 2025.

Shortly after, Contender toured the east coast of Florida.

The massive animal first surface