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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.

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

A Pennsylvania family vacationing on Cape Cod had a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Reigels spotted several sharks Saturday about a quarter mile off the coast of Nauset Beach in Eastham. “We said we wanted to see sharks and we actually saw about five, six great whites,” Lee Ann Reigel said. One shark even came up to the small boat, chartered with…

There have been a number of shark sightings in recent days, including in Plymouth, Eastham, and Chatham.

Swimmers were ordered out of the water at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts Sunday morning after a shark sighting, a day after at least two sharks were seen in the same area. The Sharktivity app reported just after 10 a.m. the beach had been closed for an hour after a white shark was spotted off the beach. On Saturday…

At least two white sharks, also known as great white sharks, were seen off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet on Saturday afternoon, according to the Sharktivity App and Massachusetts State Police, closing the water for the majority of the day. Swimmers at the Cape Cod beach were initially ordered out of the water until 11 a.m., but the water remained…

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

Two white sharks, also known as great white sharks, were seen off Nauset Beach on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Sharktivity App, temporarily closing the water for the second time in the day. Swimmers at the Cape Cod beach were ordered out of the water about 2 p.m., after the pair of sharks were sighted. They’ll be allowed back...