Contender is pretty big for a male, sure. But in great white shark size contests, it's the females who take the cake.

A colossal great white shark recently surfaced off the coast of New England ... surfaced again last Friday about 50 miles east of Nantucket, Massachusetts, between Nantucket Shoals and Georges Bank.

Just when thought it was safe... A marine research nonprofit say they have spotted their largest ever shark just off the coast of Nantucket. The massive cartilaginous fish—nicknamed “Contender” for ...

A record-breaking great white shark was spotted swimming off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. on July 18. The shark, named ...

The 13-foot-9-inch, roughly 1,654-pound adult — nicknamed Contender — isn’t the largest male white shark ever documented in the Atlantic, but he’s notable to researchers with OCEARCH who say he’s the ...

Chatham: On Friday, a white shark was spotted about 30 feet off North Beach Island, traveling south. The next morning, an ...

Contender, a mature male shark measuring 13.8 feet and weighing around 1,653 pounds, emerged near Nantucket on July 18. Shark Week 2025, an annual programming block from Discovery, coincidentally ...

Posted: Jul 25, 2025 / 03:31 PM EDT Updated: Jul 25, 2025 / 03:31 PM EDT NANTUCKET, Mass. (WTNH) — A 1,653-pound great white shark pinged off the coast of Nantucket on Friday, July 18.

Contender” pinged about 50 miles off Nantucket on July 18, with a brief blip July 24, as researchers tracked his northbound summer run.

Named after a popular boat brand, scientists reported " Contender," a great white shark, pinged dozens of miles off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The island, a popular travel destination ...

A colossal great white shark recently surfaced off the coast of New England — and has continued to lurk along the Atlantic coastline this summer, researchers said. The 13-foot-9-inch specimen ...