shark

People love seeing sharks these days. They love seeing them in terrible, made-for-SyFy movies, on television during "Shark Week," at aquariums and having them emblazoned on clothing and other paraphernalia. You know where they shouldn't like seeing sharks...

A Wareham man attacked by a shark earlier this month in North Carolina has been released from the hospital. Andrew Costello, a former editor of the Boston Herald and The Standard Times, suffered wounds to his rib cage, lower leg, hip and hands as he tried fighting off the shark in the waters of North Carolina's Outer Banks on July 1...

The 2nd Annual North Atlantic Shark Tournament is already off to a better start than last year's. The tournament, with it's home base anchored at Pier 3 in New Bedford, welcomed it's first catch of the weekend Friday afternoon, with the fishing boat Soul Mate hauling in a 329-pound Porbeagle shark...

A shark attack off the coast of North Carolina's Outer banks left a Wareham man with injuries to his rib cage, lower leg, hip and hands.

Meet two of the world's biggest idiots. These guys saw a large shark in Venezuela, and thought the best thing to do was try to surf on it. It's a whale shark, and while there's no real danger to the men, it is a protected species. Some conservationists are asking that two men caught on video "surfing" on a protected whale shark be prosecuted...

Two great white sharks have been spotted off the coast of Cape Cod. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy says the two were spotted around 50 yards off the beach in Chatham yesterday. The sharks were identified and tagged by officials, who say they have been coming close to shore at the location every year since 2009. ...

Officials in Dartmouth are keeping a close watch in waters off Demerest Lloyd State Park and Round Hill, after a shark sighting was reported this week. The siting was reported on Wednesday. Town Administrator David Cressman says Harbormaster Steven Melo patroled the waters around Round Hill, but failed to find any sign of a shark...

Officials believe it was a great white shark that attacked two women who were kayaking off the Massachusetts coast near Plymouth Wednesday. The women were a good distance form shore when the shark hit the underside of their kayak, tossing both of them into the water...

Another shark sighting in the area after fins were spotted in Dighton Harbor Wednesday evening. Dighton Harbormaster Ronald Marino hopped into his powerboat and found the shark stranded on a sandbar. Marino initially thought the predator may be a sand tiger shark, but after photos were sent to an expert for analysis, he got a different, much more docile answer...

Like a scene from the movie ``Jaws,'' swimmers were ordered out of the water at the Duxbury town beach when a large shark was spotted near the shoreline. Officials said the shark, which was tracked by a state police helicopter, was estimated to be about 15 feet in length...