{"id":583671,"date":"2026-02-12T02:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/583671\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:56:13","slug":"record-setting-great-white-shark-spotted-off-north-carolina-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/583671\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-setting great white shark spotted off North Carolina coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be on the lookout.<\/p>\n

Contender the great white shark has been pinged again in the Atlantic<\/a>, about 45 miles southeast of Cape Fear, near Wilmington, North Carolina, on Feb. 8, according to OCEARCH.<\/p>\n

Weighing in at almost 1,700 pounds, Contender is the largest male great white shark that OCEARCH has ever tagged in the Western North Atlantic.<\/p>\n

After being tagged last year off the Florida\/Georgia coast, he spent much of January swimming along Florida\u2019s coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cContender\u2019s SPOT tag will continue providing real-time location data for the next several years, supporting ongoing white shark research and conservation efforts,\u201d OCEARCH stated in an Instagram post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The organization added that the great white was named Contender in honor of Contender Boats, Inc., which is a longtime OCEARCH partner whose boats support their offshore research missions.<\/p>\n

\"AContender is the largest male great white shark that OCEARCH has ever tagged in the Western North Atlantic. OCEARCH \/ SWNS<\/p>\n

\"TwoAfter being tagged last year off the Florida\/Georgia coast, he spent much of January swimming along Florida\u2019s coast. OCEARCH \/ SWNS<\/p>\n

Previously, Contender has been pinged off the Canadian, New Jersey and Massachusetts coasts, to name a few.<\/p>\n

Contender and other sharks and sea animals like him can be tracked in real-time using the free OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Be on the lookout. Contender the great white shark has been pinged again in the Atlantic, about 45…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":583672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3808,3809,519,159,2415,67,132,68,1154,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-583671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-atlantic-ocean","9":"tag-great-white-sharks","10":"tag-north-carolina","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-sharks","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116055414246110308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}