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Shark Tales is back this week to catch up on the beginning of the shark research season, and a look at a returning guest to the Cape Cod waters.

Swimmers were ordered out of the water at several Cape Cod beaches on Thursday morning due to shark sightings.

Swimmers were ordered out of the water at several Cape Cod beaches on Thursday morning due to shark sightings. According to the Sharktivity app, Nauset Public Beach in Orleans, Lecount Hollow Beach and Maguire Landing Beach in Wellfleet, Coast Guard Beach in Truro and Eastham and Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro were closed to swimming for an hour…

An expedition to tag and research sharks off Cape Cod and the Islands will launch this week. A crew of scientists and fishermen working with Ocearch, a nonprofit, have been traveling to the Cape since 2012, when they tagged the shark Mary Lee and tracked her for five years up an down the East Coast. Founder Chris Fischer said the…

A crew of scientists and fishermen working with the nonprofit Ocearch will begin an expedition this week to tag and research sharks off Cape Cod and the Islands.

A team of scientists and fisherman with nonprofit Ocearch are preparing to depart for an expedition to tag and track sharks for research, founder Chris Fischer said.

July and August are prime shark season in New England, especially off Cape Cod. But already this summer, numerous sharks have been spotted even further north, in areas like the North Shore of Massachusetts and even southern Maine, where a woman was fatally attacked by a great white last month. So far, there have been over 250 shark sightings off…

The Reigels, vacationing on Cape Cod from Pennsylvania, spotted several sharks Saturday about a quarter mile off the coast of Nauset Beach in Eastham.

There were at least two confirmed shark sightings Saturday at the beach in Wellfleet.

James Sulikowski had been studying sharks off Maine when a white shark killed a swimmer, the state’s first deadly shark attack ever. The Arizona State University professor spoke to us in video and podcast interviews to explain what we know about sharks in this area, how people can stay safe when swimming in the ocean and what likely led...

Dr. James Sulikowski, who has been studying sharks off Maine, shares his thoughts on the shark attack that killed a swimmer this week, and how you can reduce the risk of a shark attack.

Authorities in Maine said Tuesday the shark that killed a woman in a rare attack off the state’s coast was a great white. The shark bite killed Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63, of New York City, the Maine Department of Marine Resources said. The shark fatally bit Holowach off Bailey Island on Monday while she was swimming with her daughter, who was...

Arizona State University professor James Sulikowski had already been researching sharks in Maine when one fatally attacked a swimmer. Sulikowski sat down with NECN to discuss how rare the attack is

Julie Dimperio Holowach was swimming with her daughter off Harpswell’s Bailey Island when she was attacked.

Today we talk to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy about where sharks are sighted most in Massachusetts, and bring you on the boat while they deploy acoustic detection technology.

Researchers at the Atlantic Shark Institute detected four great white sharks Wednesday in the waters near Block Island, Rhode Island. Seven acoustic receivers detected the presence of the sharks, which range in length from 8 to more than 13 feet, in the waters near the island, the institute’s officials said in a news release. The sensors were installed as a…

Swimmers were ordered out of the water Sunday in Plymouth and at a Cape Cod beach after sharks were detected, as the number of shark sightings continues to climb as the summer progresses. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said a white shark was spotted 20 yards off of Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro. Swimmers were ordered out of…

Shark Tales is back again this year to bring you more shark news, updates and behind-the-scenes interviews with Cape Cod shark researchers, even while we’re all social distancing.

Learn all about great white sharks and the research into their lives from the experts who study them in the Cape Cod area.

There may not be as many tourists on Cape Cod this summer, but there will be sharks. Shark season on the Cape kicked off with a bang on Wednesday, as the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and Greg Skomal tagged three white sharks who were circling a whale carcass off Monomoy Island during their first research trip. A shark sighting was…