Biggest great white shark recorded by group moves up Atlantic coast

Yahoo News ^ | June 12, 2025

[11th_VA]

The largest male white shark ever tagged by the research group OCEARCH is close to the coast of North Carolina as it migrates northwards.

Contender, a nearly 14-foot long adult great white male shark, was first tagged by OCEARCH in January 2025. He was first spotted off the coast of Georgia, then spent time near Florida. For the past several weeks, he has been moving northward, with his tracking device pinging multiple times off the coast of South Carolina and North Carolina. On June 11, his tracker pinged just 22 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras.

OCEARCH said in an Instagram post that Contender appears to be following standard great white migratory patterns and heading up north for the summer season, and is "making moves along the Atlantic coast." The species spends the winter in warmer, southern waters, OCEARCH said. The sharks then head to "cooler, more prey-dense waters" near Canada for the next few months...

[rlmorel]

EGAD!

Folks, I was just poking around on YouTube, and came across THIS:

LINK: "He was kayaking...Then a Shark Jumped Out!"

Honestly, nearly anything I see on the Internet now, I take it to be fake by default, but...I don't think this is fake.

Listen to the breathing rate of the guy doing the videoing...and the dynamic of the waves with the movement of the kayak and the shark's body. It could be fake, but...I don't feel that it is.

I once saw a dead Great White Shark that had teeth and jaws at least as big as this, if not bigger. Back in the Eighties or Nineties, I had gone to Point Judith in Rhode Island with a few of my friends to go to a museum (it was a Naval Aviation museum, and they were reputed to have a real F-6F Hellcat there being restored, which I had never seen)

We ended up carousing and drinking with a bunch of other people, our door burst open and a guy came in saying excitedly "Hey, someone caught a huge Great White shark, and it is on the dock!"

We all leaped to our feet and followed the guy out the door, and as we got closer to the dock area, it was clear the word had gotten out, because you could see people walking in the same direction.

But when we got there there was no shark. Apparently, they had butchered it and towed the carcass back out to sea.

But there were the great, huge bloody jaws that had been cut out of the shark, white all over, covered with red shark blood, and circled by gleaming triangular bone-white serrated teeth.

If you do a tight steepling of both your hands in front of you, forefingers and thumbs touching, that was how big each tooth was.

I couldn't believe my eyes. The guy spread the jaws and let me stand in side them, and I can tell you, it was sobering. I wish I could have gotten a picture, but this was before the days of ubiquitous smart phone cameras, and none of us had a film-filled camera.

As we stood there excitedly talking about it, I looked over to see an Asian guy sitting on the curb, trying to sharpen a two-foot long knife by dragging it back and forth along the top of the curb stone, and next to him were two pectoral fins, each one longer than my outstretched arm!

[EVO X]

I am voting it is a fake..

[Jane Long]

Whoa .... the stuff of nightmares, FRiend!

[anton]

BFD. A big fish. So what?

[Hyman Roth]

First of all. Don’t know if real or not. But if it was I would soil my shorts. Second who goes out in a kayak in the Ocean. Not me. I know people who do it.

[Bikkuri]

“need a bigger boat”

[EQAndyBuzz]

I remember that shark. He was left shark during a Super Bowl halftime show.

[No name given]

It is, actually.

[Zuriel]

Well, the guy had his camera at the ready, the shark put on a good display, coming straight at the cam, opening its mouth twice. So The guy could have already been a bit winded from paddling.

With today’s tech and plastics its only a matter of having the money to make neat mini-sub.

Still not sure about this though...

[Zuriel]

I can’t imagine someone being able to keep a camera following it when it’s only 3 feet from taking a bite.

In that moment the first thing I would be trying to do is shove the oar down its throat, not trying to get a video.

[EVO X]

My guess is a photoshop slice and and dice

[rlmorel]

I have no doubt that was a Go-Pro fastened to his head! If it were indeed a phone, I might have been tempted to throw the phone down its throat and shout “Okay! Here’s my phone!”

[rlmorel]

I have been working with a variety of applications for decades such as Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and so on...it isn't either of those. But I keep in mind it could be AI, and you are correct it isn't real, that is what it is.

Here is what their website says:

"...APEX OCEAN SIM Description Welcome to APEX OCEAN SIM, where we bring the thrilling world of apex predators and ocean wonders to life through captivating, bite-sized simulated moments.

Using advanced creative tools, we recreate the raw power, beauty, and mystery of the ocean’s most formidable hunters — from breathtaking shark attacks to mesmerizing deep-sea encounters. Every 10-second short is crafted to immerse, entertain, and ignite your fascination with the marine world.

This channel creatively simulates wildlife moments using virtual tools. Content is for artistic and entertainment purposes only.

Dive in and experience the ocean like never before, reimagined.

I must say, I was wholly impressed. That is high quality. The behavior of the shark does not seem out of character. They are known for that kind of behavior (they call it "spy glassing" where they stick their head out of the water to look around, and are known to bump or bite boards or kayaks, to "test" them.

I always use this in threads about sharks:

That said, this is why we need to buckle up for a bumpy ride in the next 20 years!

[EVO X]

The giveaway is the shark had dolphin like behaviors before deciding not to chomp down on the kayaker.

[rlmorel]

I have gone out a few times on the ocean, and I didn’t enjoy it. I kayaked a mile or so off the coast of Maine with a few friends to explore an island, but...currents and wind made it completely “un-fun”.

Didn’t like it. Lakes and some rivers are fine for me, though.

[BipolarBob]