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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…

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…

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

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,…

A shark snagged a snack right off a Massachusetts fisherman’s line and he has the photos to prove it.

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,...

Shark season peaks in August, September and October.

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....

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,…

Shark season is well underway, and swimmers are being reminded to stay safe.

Experts say shark season doesn’t really start to peak until July.

A 13-year-old girl in Florida survived a shark attack on Thursday.

It’s almost Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the summer season. And yes, the sharks are already on their way. This is just the natural trend we have to watch out for in the summers. Get out your beach chairs, your sunscreen and your Sharktivity app, because mid-May marks the return of great whites to the Cape. Like snowbirds...

Before heading to the beach, consider checking out shark activity around the Bay State’s waters.

According to research from the 2022 shark season that was released in March, there were 55 new individual Atlantic White Sharks tracked, and 63 returning sharks logged.

San Jose Sharks goalie James Reimer didn’t take part in pregame warmups Saturday night, saying the team’s decision to wear Pride-themed jerseys in support of the LGBTQ community runs counter to his religious beliefs.

After weeks of trade rumors, Sharks forward Timo Meier finally is on his way to the East Coast in a deal with the Devils.

The 12-year-old reeled in the shark, giving him the catch of a lifetime off the coast of Florida.

It seems like every year has flown by since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with another blink 2022 has come and gone. For the second year running, the pandemic stole the spotlight on nbc10boston.com. But it wasn’t the only topic that got a lot of attention in 2022. Crime, ocean wildlife (both real and mythical) and, of...

Shark season has come to a close, and researchers were kept busy this year.