The biggest white male shark ever caught on January 17 off the coast of Florida and researchers have decided to give the giant a suitable name for his frightening physique.
Meet the competition – an adult shark that weighs at 1,653 pounds and in almost 14 feet.
The average large white shark for men is around 12 to 13 feet and the average woman is 15 to 16 feet long.
The candidate was detected and tagged by OceRearch, a worldwide non-profit organization that investigates sharks and follows their movements, resulting in unprecedented research into the most feared giants of the ocean.
A spot tag was placed on the competition, one of the most advanced technological tags used by Marine Researchers. It can register temperature, salt content and depth.
Salt content refers to the amount of salt that an animal can store. Sharves are Osmoconformers, which means that they can regulate their internal salt levels to be slightly larger than the salt content in the sea.
OCEARCH shared a video on their Instagram page of the team that tagged the candidate, because the enormous shark was only centimeters of the researcher's boat.
The tag will now display the movements of the shark and provide data about the migration patterns of the predator.
Contender is a huge white shark that was caught in January, tagged and released on the coast of Florida
Researchers could measure and weigh the competition before they tag him and took samples to test
The journey of the competition can be followed on the Oceearch app using advanced Pinging technology
Not only help the data of the data the researchers of OCEARCH understand the mammals, the public can also follow the candidate's journey on the Shark Tracker app.
Shark enthusiasts were put on the ground to see the enormous size of the competition, with many who expressed their shock in the reactions.
'So cool !! I have to visit him and see where he is going, “read a comment.
'Candidate is the man, I mean, great white! What a beauty. I hope he avoids props, orcas and any other danger that this can deposit this unique copy. I look forward to following his travels. OceARCH, you rock !!! 'Another comment added.
“He's so handsome! What a beautiful fish -like !!! Thank you for studying them and protect them !! Sharks are great, “a third shared.
Ocarch said that they chose the name of the record-breaking shark after Contender Boats, a boat production company that builds semi-Custom sport fishing boats.
The company works together with OceRearch by providing the ship for their extensive missions.
Since the team tagged the competition, the migration patterns of the shark have shown him to remain next to the coast of Georgia-Florida.
Ocrearce uses ping technology to follow the path of the shark. When the shark jumps out of the water, the signal is sent to a satellite. His newest Ping was located off the coast of Flagler Beach, about half an hour's drive from Daytona Beach.
Candidate breaks records as the biggest shark spot tagged and released by Oceearch researchers
The nearly 14 feet shark came in centimeters off the boat when researchers were able to catch and tag him
Candidate is now in the tracking system of the OCEARCH and the public can see his journey
The competitioner traveled 168 miles for 20 days. In the period of 72 hours, the competition company covered a distance of five miles, according to the Shark Tracker from OceRearch.
In addition to following migration patterns, OCEARCH researchers could also collect biological samples from the competition.
They collected urogenital material, including sperm, urine and eggs. The material will be analyzed by scientists and can be used to provide more information about the urine and reproductive systems of the shark.
Although the competition is the biggest shark ever caught, tagged and released, larger top predators have been observed by scientists.
In January 2019, a group of divers with the largest large white ever swam in the neighborhood of Hawaii.
The shark, lovingly referred to as deep blue, was seen off the coast of Mexico in 2013 before the divers came into contact with the Apex Predator six years ago.
Deep blue spans an impressive 20 feet and weighs 2.5 tons. The divers' could catch the predator on the camera and the event became the subject of a National Geographic documentary in 2014.
Divers could swim with deep blue off the coast of Hawaii and to capture beautiful images of the record -breaking white shark
The Cuban catch, a shark that was observed off the coast of Cuba in 1945, measured around 21 feet and weighed around 7,000 pounds. The huge shark even received a mention in the classic novel by Earnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.
Deep blue, the Cuban catch and competitions are out of bijters under their kind, with most white sharks smaller than the famous predators.
Danny, a white shark that weighs 462. And about nine and a half foot, was recently followed on Friday off the coast of Key Largo, according to the Tracker of Oceearch.
Another tagged shark, Caroline, was last Pinged on November 4 near the Bahamas. Caroline is 12 feet, 9 inches and weighs 1,435 LBS.
Shark enthusiasts can follow the migration paths of their favorite sharks on the OCEARCH tracking system. It can also be useful for those who are planning to swim off the coast of Florida.
