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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Oliver Milman

Huge great white spotted traveling off US and Canada as shark sightings surge

man leans from a boat to tag a large shark swimming alongside in blue water
Researcher Brett McBride conducting field research on white shark Contender. Photograph: Ocearch

The largest tagged male great white shark in the Atlantic Ocean has been identified traveling up the US and Canada coastline amid a surge in sightings of sharks that are increasingly shifting their movement patterns due to the overheating of the oceans.

The great white shark, named Contender, is nearly 14ft long and weighs more than 1,650lbs. The hulking fish has been pinged in several locations off North Carolina and Maine as he headed north for the summer, with Contender’s last known location located off Nova Scotia in Canada on 11 July.

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