Encounter
captured on video shot from fishing boat
Captain:
incident ‘just left everyone in awe’
Associated
Press in Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Sun 21 Jul
2019 22.03 BST
A family
fishing in Cape Cod Bay had a close
encounter with a great white shark when it leaped from the
water to snatch a fish they had caught.
Doug
Nelson, of Franklin, who caught the leaping shark on video on Saturday, told
New England Cable News it “gave us a pretty good scare”.
Nelson’s
son Jack can be seen on the video jumping back as the shark breaches the surface
to take the fish from the line.
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy confirmed
it was a great white, as did Marc Costa, captain of the Orleans-based Columbia
Sportfishing vessel involved.
Costa said
the boat was about three miles west of Great Island in Wellfleet when the shark
made its move.
The
captain told the Cape Cod Times the encounter “just left everyone in awe”.
One local shark researcher tweeted
that it was a “good reminder that they don’t just eat seals and always be
cautious when retrieving your catch”.
Great
whites have returned
to waters off Cape Cod in recent years, thanks in part to
federal protections which have also boosted
seal populations.
Last
September a
26-year-old man died after being bitten by a shark off
Wellfleet’s Newcomb Hollow Beach. A month before that a man suffered serious
injuries in an incident off Truro, just to the north.
On Sunday
the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy confirmed a report of a white shark off
Nauset Beach. According to an alert, the
beach was closed to swimming for an hour in the early afternoon.
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