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Researchers attached a fin-mounted camera to a nurse shark in Florida to study movement; the footage unexpectedly showed a great white cruising by for several minutes, offering a rare shark's-eye view of interspecies interaction.
A lifeguard at Scarborough Beach State Park in Maine was pulled underwater about 5–6 feet by a great white shark while using a rescue torpedo; he freed himself and returned to shore safely as officials briefly closed the beach and monitored ongoing shark activity in the area, with advisories urging caution and adherence to lifeguards' instructions.
Researchers from the California White Shark Project propose a systematic way to interpret scars on great white sharks, based on a 2025 Frontiers in Marine Science study. They cite a 16‑ft female great white with a circular head wound from a cookiecutter shark as an example, showing how scar patterns reveal interactions with prey, boats, mates, or entanglement. The team suggests offshore migration brings cookiecutter encounters and that certain scars—like hold bites that heal—could indicate offshore mating, helping scientists infer where and when white sharks reproduce.
Breton, a 1,400-pound great white tracked by OCEARCH since 2020, surprised scientists by moving south to the eastern Florida coast during summer, with a ping in unusually warm surface water around 87°F. Researchers believe he may be chasing pelagic prey and note that white sharks often dive to cooler depths, underscoring the species’ complex and less-predictable migration patterns.
Contender, the western Atlantic’s largest tagged male great white at about 1,650–1,700 pounds, is migrating north from the Outer Banks toward Cape Cod and eastern Canada. Researchers track him with a satellite tag that only reports when his fin surfaces, giving partial location data with an expected five-year lifespan. The migration aligns with cooler northern waters as oceans warm, where seals and large schooling fish attract great whites closer to shore. There’s no record of Contender harming people; beachgoers should follow safety advisories. Real-time movements are available on OCEARCH’s Global Shark Tracker, alongside data from more than 100 other tagged whites to aid conservation.
Award-winning photographer Jordan Robins captured a dramatic drone video at Jervis Bay as a 4-meter great white shark parted a dense school of Australian salmon and swam among them for about a minute before moving back to deeper water, marking one of his most incredible wildlife encounters.
A great white shark was seen swimming dangerously close to a group of children off the Southern California coast, with drone video showing the encounter from about a mile away. The photographer said the kids were unaware of the shark’s presence, noted a dorsal-fin wound that could be from a boat propeller, and observed the shark breach twice, suggesting the injury might keep it lingering and more willing to approach people.
Ripple, an 11 feet 6 inches, 778-pound subadult great white shark tracked by OCEARCH off Nova Scotia, has logged more than 8,000 miles along the U.S. East Coast and into the Gulf, with a latest ping about 45 miles off Cape Breton after a 354-mile week; OCEARCH says he could continue northeast toward Newfoundland or head northwest into the Gulf of St. Lawrence as cooler waters lure him north.
A 14-foot, roughly 1,700-pound male great white named Contender—the largest male white shark tagged in the western North Atlantic—has been detected off North Carolina’s Outer Banks and is likely migrating north toward Cape Cod, underscoring ongoing East Coast tracking of great whites; Deep Blue remains the largest-known great white at about 20 feet and 4,500 pounds.
Ripple, a subadult male great white shark tagged off Nova Scotia in Sept 2025, logged a 354-mile sprint along the East Coast in the past week and is now about 45 miles off Cape Breton, the farthest north Ripple has been tracked. Having traveled more than 8,000 miles since tagging, Ripple could continue northeast toward Newfoundland or northwest into the Gulf of St. Lawrence as it follows cooler waters and prey, with real-time updates available via the OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker app.
An OCEARCH-tagged male great white shark known as ‘Contender’—about 1,700 pounds and 14 feet—was detected near North Carolina’s Outer Banks as it migrates up the East Coast, illustrating ongoing tracking of the species’ movements along the western North Atlantic.
The Atlantic’s largest tagged male great white shark, Contender, appears to be migrating toward Cape Cod after a roughly 7,000-mile journey in the North Atlantic; a July 10 Z-ping showed movement from the Outer Banks, with Cape Cod offering warm water and plentiful prey as a migration hotspot in summer and fall. Beachgoers should stay alert, swim near lifeguards, avoid dusk and dawn, and follow posted advisories as the shark continues its seasonal movement.
A 1,653‑pound, nearly 14‑foot great white shark named Contender resurfaced off North Carolina’s Outer Banks and appears to be migrating north toward Cape Cod and eastern Canada, tracked in near real time by the OCEARCH shark tracker.
The Atlantic’s largest tagged great white, Contender—about 14 feet long, 1,653 pounds, and a ~30-year-old male—surfaced off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, as it continues a northward migration toward Cape Cod and eastern Canada per OCEARCH. Tagged Jan. 17, 2025 off the Florida–Georgia coast, Contender has pinged multiple times, with a July 10 surface sighting marking its ongoing movement in search of warmer waters and prey.
A rare underwater sighting off Block Island captured an 8-foot great white shark feeding on a humpback whale carcass. Researchers from the Atlantic Shark Institute and Mystic Aquarium say it may be the first camera-recorded white shark sighting in Rhode Island waters, with the team collecting whale samples for research before the carcass washed ashore at Crescent Beach.