Massive great white shark pings near New Jersey after visiting Canada

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The largest antheral large achromatic shark to beryllium tagged successful the Atlantic has remerged successful waters disconnected the seashore of confederate New Jersey, probe radical OCEARCH said.

When the radical tagged the astir 14-foot-long predator, named Contender, successful January, helium was swimming adjacent the Florida-Georgia border. He has traveled implicit 4,300 miles since then. Contender was tracked "making moves" up the Atlantic Coast implicit the summertime earlier reaching waters adjacent Newfoundland, Canada, successful precocious September.

In precocious October, Contender started to determination south. His tracker pinged aggregate times arsenic helium traveled astir Nova Scotia. On Nov. 12, it showed that Contender had reached New Jersey waters. As of Tuesday night, the 1,650-pound shark was disconnected the seashore of Atlantic City.

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Contender isn't the lone OCEARCH-tagged shark traveling south. The radical said connected Instagram that Ernest, a pistillate achromatic shark, was making "big moves" and had reached the Florida Keys aft having been past seen adjacent the Florida-Georgia border. OCEARCH tagged Ernst, who is 12 feet agelong and weighs astir 1,000 pounds, during an expedition to Nova Scotia successful October, according to her tracking data.

OCEARCH tracking information shows different shark species, including tiger sharks, achromatic sharks and hammerheads, moving on the Atlantic coast.

Great whites successful the Atlantic thin to walk the summertime successful cooler, prey-dense bluish waters, past migrate southbound to warmer temperatures, OCEARCH said connected Instagram. Sightings of sharks, including large whites, were up successful waters disconnected Maine and Canada this year, starring to immoderate beach closures and warnings. Human-shark interactions remained rare, CBS News antecedently reported. Scientists person antecedently noted an increase successful large achromatic sharks successful the Atlantic.

OCEARCH follows the sharks to larn much astir their habits and behaviors. Each tag reports information for astir 5 years, according to the group. The tracking data is disposable online.

"Each ping adds different hint to the puzzle of achromatic shark migration—and our squad is tracking each move," the radical wrote connected Instagram.