Contender on the Prowl

https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/contenders-latest-ping-reveals-location-atlantics-largest-recorded-male-great-white-mystery.amp

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This is pretty new from National Geographic, and although it begins with a long segment about Massachusetts, it does cover North Carolina also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY3KEP086MM

https://www.outerbanksvoice.com/2026/07/12/the-atlantic-oceans-great-white-highway/

@tgp - Great article and I like how they can follow online and figure out their patterns much more easily now. Thanks! So interesting. As an aside, I bought my granddaughter one of those turtle tracker bracelets in Frisco recently and they have looked up her turtle online and his name is "Oden" and he is currently swimming in the Caribbean. My daughter was laughing when she told me about Oden's journey....I'm laughing now. Probably some kind of marketing stunt to sell a plastic bracelet, but she likes it and that's what counts.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/15/us-news/1700lb-great-white-shark-contender-biggest-ever-recorded-in-atlantic-believed-to-be-heading-to-cape-cod/

Hmm, maybe they've saved the bluefin tuna and it's rebounding? Is bluefin tuna yummy? Are there bluefin tuna regularly migrating up and down the east coast? Did they film Wicked Tuna on the east coast for 13 seasons? Did they fish out of New England and Oregon Inlet? Google AI says, "Yes, great white sharks do eat bluefin tuna. In fact, giant bluefin tuna are highly prized, calorie-dense prey. Researchers have even documented a single female great white with as many as 20 Atlantic bluefin tuna in her stomach at once"

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