-
One great white shark's epic journey could provide clues for protecting them
As sharks go, LeeBeth is something like a long-haul trucker with gills and giant teeth. Swimmers at the beach might not be excited to see the 14-foot white shark, but scientists following LeeBeth’s movements are thrilled that the big fish’s epic journey could provide valuable clues to help the species. And they’re curious where she’ll go next. White sharks,...
-
Filmmaker captures images of newborn great white shark off California shore
A wildlife photographer and filmmaker captured what could be the first-ever images of a newborn great white shark on the California central coast.
-
Boston-area woman killed by shark in the Bahamas
A Boston-area woman is dead after a rare shark attack in the Bahamas on Monday.
-
Tragedy in the Bahamas: Mass. woman killed by shark while paddleboarding identified
A woman from Boston was killed by a shark while paddleboarding off a resort’s beach in the Bahamas on Monday morning, police said.
-
Mass. woman killed in shark attack in the Bahamas
A Massachusetts woman is dead after a rare shark attack in the Bahamas on Monday.
-
Massachusetts woman killed by shark while paddleboarding in Bahamas
The woman, in her mid-40s, is believed to have been bitten on the right hip and arm about three-quarters of a mile off coast near Sandals’ resort in Nassau, Sandals Royal Bahamian, while with a male relative at about 11:15 a.m., Royal Bahamas Police Force spokeswoman Desiree Ferguson said at a news conference Monday.
-
Sandals releases statement after Mass. woman killed in Bahamas shark attack
The woman was attacked while she was paddleboarding off the coast of Nassau near the Sandals Royal Bahamian resort.
-
Tourist from Mass. killed in shark attack in Bahamas
The woman was attacked while she was paddleboarding off the coast of Nassau near Sandals’ resort.
-
Boston woman killed by shark while paddleboarding in Bahamas, police say
A woman from Boston was killed by a shark while paddleboarding off a resort’s beach in the Bahamas on Monday morning, police said.
-
Nurse shark, 1st one in 10 years, joins New England Aquarium
The New England Aquarium in Boston now has a new nurse shark — the first one in 10 years. Cirri, a 3.5 foot, 22 pound female nurse shark, can be seen in the aquarium’s Caribbean coral reef exhibit. “Nurse sharks are a spectacular species to highlight here at the New England Aquarium,” said Mike O’Neill, manager of the Giant Ocean…
-
Cape Cod surfers share terrifying close call with shark
Two surfers had a close encounter with a shark at a Cape Cod beach on Saturday. “Yesterday on November 4th 2023 at about noon my cousin Pete Emond and I were surfing by ourselves over in front of the vip house at Coast Guard beach. Pete was sitting on his board and I was standing on mine when I looked…
-
Shark detection devices off Cape Cod removed ahead of Hurricane Lee
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy has removed devices it uses to collect data on shark locations from the coast of Cape Cod in anticipation of the potential impacts of Hurricane Lee. These detection receivers, which cost about $15,000 each, are used to collect data for research purposes. They also help power the Sharktivity app, which offers the public information about…
-
New research finds proof Cape Cod is a major white shark hot spot
Enough white sharks are now visiting Cape Cod that researchers are calling it one of the world’s largest hot spots for the apex predator. About 800 white sharks swam through the Cape Cod area from 2015 to 2018, according to the new research, published Thursday in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. It used a first-of-its-kind population survey for white…
-
Active start to shark season in Massachusetts
The summer is about half over, but shark season is just getting underway. Great Whites are big stars on Cape Cod where a growing number of people seem to have stories of their own close encounters
-
Shark season approaching on Cape Cod
The summer is about half over, but shark season is just getting underway. Great white sharks are big stars on Cape Cod, where a growing number of people seem to have stories of their own close encounters. Don Parker operates a charter fishing boat out of Sesuit Harbor in Dennis. He says he sees a lot of sharks, but recently,…
-
Shark jumps out of water, takes bite out of Mass. fisherman's catch
A shark snagged a snack right off a Massachusetts fisherman’s line and he has the photos to prove it.
-
Here's where sharks have been spotted in Mass. in recent days
Maybe it’s the weather? Compared to previous summers, it seems we’ve heard a lot less about great white shark sightings off Cape Cod and other areas of the Massachusetts coast. But that’s certainly changed in recent days, as numerous sightings have been reported just as temperatures began to shoot up into the 90s. Over the past two days alone,...
-
Scientists and beach-goers prepare for peak shark season on Cape Cod
Shark season peaks in August, September and October.
-
Sharks are returning to Cape waters, and humans still have a lot to learn about them
Sharks are returning to Cape Cod. In the last decade, hundreds have been identified. Experts have learned a lot, but there’s still a lot they don’t know about these creatures of the deep. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, with the help of state’s leading expert Greg Skomal, have identified more than 600 sharks, tagging more than half of them....
-
Sharks get close to swimmers more often than you might think, study shows
Roger Freeman remembers it like it was yesterday: A great white shark swimming right next to him a few summers ago while he was paddleboarding off Nauset Beach. “Ironically, to this day, if you Google ‘paddleboarder,’ you will get lots of hits,” Freeman said with a laugh. Freeman said he had no idea at the time, but it turns out,…