The shark measured 14 feet long. (SWNS)

By Michael Lee Simpson

The biggest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic is on the move - and has surfaced just off the coast of New Jersey.

Contender, a 14ft predator, 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.

After heading north for the summer, to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, right off the Labrador Peninsula in Canada, to gorge on seals to build fat for winter, he made an epic dart south again.

Pinging multiple times in late October, off the coast of Cape Breton Island, Canada, the 30-year-old animal spent two weeks chasing the coastline south, surfacing just off Atlantic City, New Jers

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