Great White Sharks heading around Cape Cod expanding north.
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Sharks are slowly returning to the waters off Massachusetts and Cape Cod, with a handful of sightings over the past week.
Since last Friday, June 20, four white sharks were spotted around the Cape, with one potential sighting based on a bitten seal that was photographed, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy in Chatham.
The conservancy has tagged and named white sharks typically seen swimming around the Cape’s coasts. These acoustic tags transmit data from shark detections in real time, with the results appearing on the conservancy’s app called Sharktivity.
The first possible sighting, based on data shared on Sharktivity — and not at the Cape — was based on a seal with bite wounds off Great Point in Nantucket at around 1:01 p.m. on Friday, June 20.
The following day, one or two sharks were seen near Race Point Beach in Provincetown. The first sighting was also seen eating a seal at around 10:46 a.m. The next sighting was between 20 to 30 yards from the beach and was seen hunting and eating a seal at around 10:31 p.m.
That same day, another shark was seen in the shallow waters near Longnook Beach in Truro at around 11:39 a.m.
Sharktivity featured a submitted photo of a white shark seen several yards northeast of Crowes Reservation Beach in East Dennis at around 1:46 p.m. on Monday, June 23.
The last Cape sighting was at around 6:25 a.m. on Tuesday, June 24. That morning, a white shark measured at around 10 feet long “took” a striped bass south of Bellingsgate Island, according to Sharktivity.
The last shark seen across the Islands was a white shark seen in Nantucket Sound at around 1:18 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25.
Sharks have slowly appeared across Massachusetts waters since May 11. One was spotted off of Nantucket, according to The New England Aquarium. A person who was on the shore of Smith’s Point in Madaket on the island noticed a “pool of blood” in the water, then saw a seal swimming toward the beach. A shark was following close behind the seal, the witness said.
