At 3,541 pounds and over 17 feet long, the great white shark is the largest one that OCEARCH researchers have tagged to date.

Teazer was pinged Thursday morning in the waters between south of the Aspotogan Peninsula near East Ironbound Island.

The shark, named Unama'ki, travelled over 4,000 kilometres in one month to get from Nova Scotia to Florida.

The unusual move left passengers and guides aboard the charter boat stunned.

The efforts of enthusiastic scientists off the coast of Nova Scotia are raising ethical questions over methods used to attract and study great white sharks

This follows a sighting in late August of a great white shark near Saint Andrews

"Until this video was shot, we had never actually witnessed any kind of social interaction," scientist Gregory Skomal said.

“Brunswick,” an eight-foot-nine white shark, made his way up the Eastern seaboard and was pinged twice on Monday in the upper part of the Gulf of Maine.

Two shark researchers who came face-to-face with what could be one of the largest great whites ever recorded are using their encounter as an opportunity to push for legislation that would protect sharks in Hawaii.

Hilton has spent a lot of time off Nova Scotia's south shore the last two years, but more recently travelled up to northern Cape Breton and had been flirting with braving the colder waters off Newfoundland.