Nantucket, July 15th
- The Nantucket Island Inquirer reports
that the carcass of a young female white shark 6.5' in length washed up
on Madaket Beach off of
Sheep Pond Road on Monday. The cause of death is unknown. This is the
first time in 21 years that the body of a dead white shark has washed
ashore in Massachusetts. This fact of a real dead shark follows the
hoax of a white shark sighting on Martha's Vineyard last Thursday.
Update on the 2nd shark sighting at MVY - Lifeguards at South Beach (aka "Katama") on Martha's Vineyard closed the beach last Thursday when, at the same time as the hoax sighting was reported on the Nantucket Sound side of the island, they too saw a shark. According to the Cape Cod Times the shark seen by the lifeguards last Thursday was also seen by a biplane pilot.
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