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.

Scientists have tagged a giant male great white shark off the East Coast. The researchers said "Contender" is the largest male white shark ever caught and studied in the northwest Atlantic.

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.