A nonprofit research group OCEARCH tagged a massive shark, named "Contender", while swimming off Florida's East Coast near Brevard County. At 13 feet and 9 inches, weighing in at 1,653 pounds, the male shark is the largest ever recorded in the Atlantic.

Here is an update on the location of Contender, the biggest male great white shark ever recorded in Atlantic Ocean, after he was discovered off the US coast

In the must-see video above, researchers with Ocearch, a nonprofit ocean animal research and education organization, recently caught and tagged the largest male white shark yet found by their group in the northwest Atlantic shark population.

Contender is a white shark who weighs in at 1,653 pounds. At 14 feet long, he is the largest male white shark ever tagged by non-profit ocean researchers, Ocearch. By temporarily capturing the shark,

According to The Florida Times-Union, OCEARCH — the aforementioned nonprofit — tagged the shark on Jan. 17. The great white, which was later given the name “Contender,” clocked in at a whopping 1,653 pounds at 13 feet, 9 inches.

And while even the smaller sharks can be fairly creepy, it tends to be that the bigger the shark, the scarier it is. So prepare for fear levels to be heightened as the ‘biggest great white shark’ ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean has been discovered off the US coast.

The shark, known as Contender, was first spotted just off the Florida-Georgia border on January 17 and is the largest male ever recorded in the region