Why Are Great White Sharks Swimming so Close to North Atlantic Beaches?

It’s true there are many more great whites now say scientists who study them. Whitaker saw them not much more than 10 feet off a Cape Cod beach with Dr. Greg Skomal, chief shark scientist for the Massachusetts Department of Marine Fisheries. Nearby were the reasons for the sharks coming so close to shore: hundreds of lounging, federally protected gray seals, the favorite meal of great whites. “This is the restaurant here. These sharks have found the restaurant, and they’re waiting for the doors to open,” quips Skomal.

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