The Plymouth harbormaster reports a shark today: Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 07/04/2020 - 5:38pm
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By adamg - Thu, 06/13/2019 - 1:33pm
The State House News Service reports Cape legislators invited reporters to a State House briefing about how to keep Cape tourists from being chomped by sharks this summer, or something to that effect, but then banned the reporters who actually showed up, claiming the room was just too small.
By adamg - Wed, 09/19/2018 - 9:32am
WBZ reports:
Everything from building more cell towers to installing emergency call boxes or even placing old school pay phones on beaches should be explored, some say.
By adamg - Wed, 07/05/2017 - 10:24am
Good Morning Gloucester tells us the story of Cisco, a great white that gets around.
By adamg - Sun, 09/18/2016 - 10:34am
Greg Skomal, our resident state shark guy, has named a 15-foot male shark Big Papi.
By adamg - Thu, 06/02/2016 - 11:01am
On Tuesday, police and Aquarium biologists investigated the remains of a basking shark in the Reserve Channel. This morning, Nichole spotted what appeared to be the same shark floating in the water off the JFK Library on Columbia Point.
In 2012, a whale carcass that washed ashore on one of the Harbor islands eventually floated out to sea and headed north, winding up on a beach in Rockport.
By adamg - Tue, 08/18/2015 - 10:45am
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy posted this video by state shark expert Greg Skomal of an incident off the beach at Chatham yesterday.
By adamg - Wed, 09/03/2014 - 10:28pm
WCVB reports two kayakers taking seal pictures were overturned by a great white shark - which tried taking a bite out of one of their kayaks.
By adamg - Mon, 08/25/2014 - 9:32pm
State Police recorded this great white off Duxbury today from one of their helicopters.
By adamg - Thu, 08/08/2013 - 4:20pm
Weymouth Police posted this photo of the water off Weymouth around noon today and report:
The Weymouth Harbormaster and Animal Control Officer responded and searched the area but did not observe anything. Photos and video were shown to experts who could not determine if it was in fact a shark however they could not rule it out. It is possible that it was an ocean sunfish mistaken for a shark which is common occurrence. Ocean sunfish are very large often swim near the surface because they feed mainly on jellyfish. Their protruding dorsal fins are sometimes mistaken for those of sharks. Ocean sunfish are docile and not a danger to swimmers.
By adamg - Fri, 07/29/2011 - 10:09am
Wildlife officials not pleased; Henry Winkler unavailable for comment.
By adamg - Fri, 07/02/2010 - 12:44pm
Sure, the chances of you being gobbled by a great white shark are incredibly low, but don't be stupid out there, the Coast Guard says, in a holiday weekend shark advisory for the waters off
By adamg - Mon, 06/28/2010 - 10:39pm
State officials assure us there's nothing to worry about, dum dum, dum d
By adamg - Sat, 09/05/2009 - 9:08am
Headline: Shark sightings put Cape on alert.
Story: "Year-round residents aren't fazed."
A real newspaper would hire some gruff, squint-eyed sea captain so the reporter could get into a shark cage and go mano-a-finno with the Great Beast. Surely, two-fisted Herald maritime reporter O'Ryan Johnson isn't scared of a little fish, is he?
By adamg - Tue, 08/19/2008 - 8:14am
Alert the tabloids: Ken Savage videos a brief encounter with a great white shark while on a fishing trip to Stellwagen Bank.
By adamg - Sat, 07/12/2008 - 12:54pm
I'm kind of glad Herald reporter O'Ryan Grylls Johnson didn't actually find that great white off Martha's Vineyard, because you know he would've tried to capture it and you know the thing would've eaten him and his boatmates because they wouldn't have a spare oxygen tank to kill it with and the Herald really can't afford to lose any more reporters.
But speaking as a recovering reporter who once went into the deepest woods of Weston with a moose hunter in search of a moose that had been hit by a car the day before, I applaud the Herald's new wildlife beat. When will the Herald be sending reporters up to the White Mountains to go mano-a-pawo with a bear?
We look for the beast outside Bartlett
Or to the Berkshires to go mano-a-talono with a bald eagle?
We look for the beast up a pine tree
I'd pay for video of that.
By kensavage - Mon, 07/10/2006 - 7:31am
