Great White Shark

A photographer capturing images of surfers during the Annual San Onofre Surf Club contest captured a great white shark photobombing one of his pictures. Darsha Philips reports for the NBC4 News on Oct. 25, 2022.

A 15-foot great white shark was seen swimming in Cape Cod Bay in mid-June, a time when sharks typically return to the waters off Cape Cod and the Islands for the summer season.

A group of men fishing for flounder off the New Jersey coast on Saturday didn’t manage to catch any keepers — but they did return to shore with an unforgettable tale — and video — of a close encounter with a great white shark.

Typically, sharks don’t return to the waters off Cape Cod and the Islands until mid-June. But shark season got off to an early start this year, as about a dozen have already been spotted off the Massachusetts coast. The first confirmed sighting was on Sunday, May 29. A great white shark was spotted near the Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket….

Sharks have started to return to the Cape and Islands for the summer. Massachusetts’ first white shark sighting of the season was confirmed Monday, Memorial Day, by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. The animal, also known as the great white shark, was spotted near the Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket on Sunday. The conservancy’s Twitter page shared a local’s...

With many people returning to Cape Cod as the weather gets warmer, sharks are expected back, as well.

A massive 1,000-pound great white shark named “Ironbound” was recently recorded swimming near the New Jersey Shore.

Researchers hope gathering information on the public’s perspectives on sharks will help leaders determine how to move forward while also protecting the environment.

Cape Cod voters, tourists and commercial fishermen are all likely to recognize sharks as an important, beneficial piece of the local marine ecosystem, but when it comes to seals, the groups have more divergent views, according to newly published data. A survey of more than 1,800 people found significant similarities in how different groups of people think about sharks in…

Researchers with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy have tagged more than 20 great white sharks off of Cape Cod so far this year, adding to a total of 250 tags since their research began in 2010.

This shark was eager to flash its toothy grin for the camera! On Friday, Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries captured footage of a white shark that was chasing his camera underwater off the coast of Cape Cod.  Based on the video shared by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy on Monday, the shark is anything but camera…

It happened in the matter of seconds – an encounter with a great white shark off Nauset Beach. Matt Pieciak’s cousin captured the moment on video while he tried to reel the big catch.

Matt Pieciak and his friends were having a day at Nauset Beach, casually cracking a beer and casting a line, when he wound up hooking a great white shark Sunday. “We started having some beers and I think we were playing corn hole and I saw the rod start to bend over my cousin’s shoulder,” Pieciak said. “That’s when...

Matt Pieciak says he’s well aware sharks are a common sight at Nauset Beach in Orleans but never did he imagine he would come so close to one off the shore.

Scientists at the New England Aquarium are asking for help identifying a great white shark that was spotted eating a dead whale off the coast of Maine at the end of last week. On Friday, Steve Brettell and a friend captured the shark on camera shortly before the whale carcass washed up on Mother’s Beach in Kennebunk. Brettell said...

The shark, which was spotted feeding on a whale in Kennebunk, isn’t tagged, scientists say.

Now that shark season is officially here, researchers on Cape Cod are busy trying to find a way to predict when the animals are swimming close to the shore.

It’s shark season, and researchers are trying to predict when they may be close to shore.

A massive shark seen on video lurking around a tall ship off the coast of Massachusetts has social media in an uproar.

A great white shark was spotted off the coast of Maine Thursday afternoon, according to Wells police, about two and a half weeks after the state’s first deadly shark attack. Several beachgoers alerted a lifeguard around noon, police said, to say they had spotted fins in the water off of Wells Beach. As lifeguards were about to investigate with...