Three New Hampshire residents had a very close encounter while on a boat off the Maine coast. Whitney Fitzgerald, of Dover, said she was with her boyfriend Luke and his father Chris Ramsay, when she spotted the shark 20 miles off the coast of Wells, Maine around 7 a.m. Saturday while fishing.>> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play <> Subscribe to WMUR’s YouTube channel <<
WELLS, Maine —
Three New Hampshire residents had a very close encounter while on a boat off the Maine coast.
Whitney Fitzgerald, of Dover, said she was with her boyfriend Luke and his father Chris Ramsay, when she spotted the shark 20 miles off the coast of Wells, Maine around 7 a.m. Saturday while fishing.
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At first, Fitzgerald said she thought they’d maybe just seen a dolphin and Luke said he thought it might’ve been a baby whale, but then as the shark swam closer to their boat, they put two and two together.
“And so we turned around and kind of started to follow the fin with our boat, and we got right up close to it and saw that it was in fact not a dolphin. And it was maybe a shark. What kind, I don’t know, but it was right there,” Fitzgerald said.
They said that it was their very first time seeing a shark in Maine.
Shark expert John Chisholm told News 9 that it was a Mako shark.