Atlantic White Shark Conservancy

Now that shark season is officially here, researchers on Cape Cod are busy trying to find a way to predict when the animals are swimming close to the shore.

A shark was spotted in Chatham, Massachusetts, Sunday afternoon.  The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy reported the shark sighting off North Beach Island.  The shark was spotted by a pilot about 2:40 p.m. Shark sightings become more common off Cape Cod from late June through October as part of a seasonal migration.

Environmental officials on Friday shared a startling photo of a white shark swimming close to a surfer off a popular Cape Cod beach.

Sharks were sighted or detected at beaches on Cape Cod and at Plymouth, Massachusetts, Friday, one of them eating a seal just 25 feet from shore and another seen jumping out of the water. The great white shark seen eating the seal was a stone’s throw from shore about a quarter mile north of Nauset Public Beach in Orleans, the...

Multiple shark sightings have closed beaches in Cape Cod and Nantucket on Sunday. A shark spotted at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro on Sunday led officials to close the beach to swimmers until given further notice.

Town beaches in Plymouth, Massachusetts, have been temporarily closed to swimmers after a confirmed shark sighting. Swimming at Plymouth beaches will be suspended for three hours after the harbormaster received a report from a lobsterman who said he saw a nearly 9-foot long white shark at the surface alongside his boat.

A shark sighting Saturday afternoon temporarily closed a Cape Cod beach to swimming. Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro is closed to swimmers until 5 p.m. after a shark was spotted nearby its shoreline.

Sharks were spotted at four different beaches in Massachusetts on Saturday.

For the second time this week, a beach off Martha’s Vineyard is closed to swimming due to a great white shark sighting. Edgartown Police confirmed that a shark was spotted at South Beach, and said officials have cleared the water and the beach is temporarily closed.

A Cape Cod beach was closed Wednesday for the second day in a row after a shark was spotted near shore. Newcomb Hollow beach in Wellfleet was temporarily closed to swimming on Wednesday afternoon after a shark was spotted just yards off shore.

Two Massachusetts beaches were temporarily closed Tuesday after shark sightings, authorities said. Newcomb Hollow Beach at the Wellfleet-Truro line was closed in the afternoon after Massachusetts State Police said in a tweet that a white shark was spotted by a helicopter “near the swimmers.”

In recent years, great white shark sightings have become all the more common on Cape Cod. Already this year, more than 150 of the sharks have been spotted off of Massachusetts. Most of the sightings are on the outer Cape, from Chatham to Provincetown. But there have also been many sightings in Cape Cod Bay, where research scientists have been...

Over the past week, there were 17 shark sightings off Cape Cod, including seven over the weekend alone. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, great white sharks were spotted in Cape Cod Bay and off Truro, Eastham, Orleans, Chatham and Monomoy Island.

It was another busy weekend for shark sightings, with 15 great whites spotted off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday and Sunday combined. That’s the same number of sharks that were spotted the weekend before. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, seven great white sharks were spotted off Provincetown, one off Truro, two of Wellfleet, one off...

A group of adults and kids that was fishing off Orleans Saturday got a big surprise when a great white shark jumped from the water feet from their boat.

Already this summer, more than 100 sharks have been spotted off Cape Cod, including 33 in the past week alone. On at least five occasions in the past week, beaches on the Cape have been closed to swimming temporarily due to shark sightings near shore.

Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, Massachusetts has been closed to swimming for one hour after a great white shark was spotted late Tuesday morning. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, the beach was closed after a confirmed shark sighting around 11:40 a.m. No further information was immediately available.

A great white shark got up close and personal with a GoPro camera off Cape Cod.
The video camera caught the inquisitive shark swimming off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts.
Footage released by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy during a research trip on June 30 shows the shark circling the GoPro, at one point swimming toward and bumping the camera.

A great white shark was spotted about 40 yards off a beach in Cape Cod on Tuesday. The shark was seen about 40 yards off Marconi Beach in Wellfleet around noon, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.