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A 21-year-old caught a shark on a Nantucket beach. While trying to release the shark back into the water, he was bitten on the leg, video shows.
The shark bite victim was a 21-year-old man, according to The Nantucket Current. He first came into contact with the shark ...
"The sharks and the humans are both on the water's edge more frequently in the summer," said Dr. Nick Whitney, senior ...
Nantucket banned swimming around the Great Point beach area after several attacks on seals, and Long Island has deployed drones and WaveRunner lifeguards to monitor for sharks.
Sandbar sharks, after the local population was decimated decades ago because of overfishing, are now all over the Nantucket coast — and a researcher at the New England Aquarium has tagged more ...