Sharks

At least eight great white sharks were spotted Sunday along Cape Cod, causing the closure of several beaches for part of the day. Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, was ordered closed to swimming until 2 p.m. following the detection of a great white shark by a real-time receiver, the Sharktivity App. Coast Guard Beach was closed to s...

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. 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...

A week after Maine’s first-ever fatal shark attack, beach restrictions at state parks are being lifted. From last Monday through Sunday, swimmers at Crescent Beach, Popham Beach, Ferry Beach and Reid State Parks were all limited to water up to their ankles, knees or waists, depending on the location. On Friday, Maine Marine Patrol confirmed i...

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&#8...

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 wit...

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 remain...

Seals are thriving off the Northeast coast thanks to decades of protections, and that victory for wildlife has brought a consequence for humans — more encounters with sharks. Seals are a favorite prey of large sharks such as the great white. The death this week of swimmer Julie Dimperio Holowach, who was killed by a great white off Harpswell, Maine...

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.

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......

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...

A shark was sighted in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Sunday morning.  The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy confirmed the shark sighting. The shark was seen circling a boat and then swam away.  Elsewhere, police said Duxbury Beach was closed for an hour shortly before noon due to possible shark sightings. Shark sightings in Massachusetts clos...