{"id":189806,"date":"2025-09-29T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189806\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:25:08","slug":"its-peak-white-shark-season-experts-say-heres-where-theyve-been-spotted-this-weekend-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189806\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s &#8220;peak white shark season,&#8221; experts say. Here&#8217;s where they&#8217;ve been spotted this weekend in Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer may be over, but great white sharks are still very prevalent in the waters around Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>State shark biologist John Chisholm posted to social media about multiple shark sightings off Cape Cod this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s peak white shark season so stay vigilant if you&#8217;re going in the water,&#8221; Chisholm <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MA_Sharks\/status\/1971574765883380056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy&#8217;s shark-tracking app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticwhiteshark.org\/sharktivity-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Sharktivity&#8221;<\/a> has logged more than a dozen reports of great white sharks near Massachusetts shores since Friday. Here&#8217;s a look at where they are.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Cod Bay shark sighting<\/p>\n<p>On Friday there was a shark sighting off Sandy Neck Beach in West Barnstable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a boater in the same area said he fulfilled a lifelong dream when a great white <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/video\/video-shows-great-white-shark-in-cape-cod-bay-it-was-graceful-it-was-beautiful\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\">swam alongside his boat<\/a> for about 10 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chatham shark sightings<\/p>\n<p>A buoy off North Beach Island in Chatham detected multiple sharks this weekend, including the named sharks C-Horse, Mueller, Saucer, Kylie and Commodore. The biggest of the bunch is the 11-foot Mueller, a male shark that was detected Saturday afternoon. Mueller was named by an anonymous donor after former FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/the-mueller-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Robert Mueller<\/a>, the Conservancy says.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness reports from North Beach Island report that a shark was sighted as close as 20 feet from shore, according to Sharktivity.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks were also spotted south of Chatham Harbor. And further south of that area, there were seven shark sightings near Monomoy Island, which is a popular gathering spot for sharks&#8217; favorite prey: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/great-white-shark-season-massachusetts-nantucket\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seals.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orleans shark sightings<\/p>\n<p>There were two shark sightings on Friday off the Cape Cod National Seashore in Orleans. Those sightings happened less than 100 yards from the over-sand vehicle trails.<\/p>\n<p>Just off Nauset Beach, a buoy detected the sharks named Kylie, Mueller and C-Horse swimming by.<\/p>\n<p>Wellfleet shark sighting<\/p>\n<p>Mueller the shark was also detected by a buoy near Lecount Hollow Beach in Wellfleet.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-20250928-035026.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-20250928-035026.png \" height=\"495\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Report shark sightings via the Sharktivity app.<\/p>\n<p>                Atlantic White Shark Conservancy<\/p>\n<p>To stay &#8220;shark smart,&#8221; experts advise beachgoers not to swim alone and to stay close to shore. Swimmers should also avoid areas where seals or schools of fish are present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticwhiteshark.org\/sharktivity-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to download the Sharktivity app and keep track of sightings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/neal-j-riley\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neal  Riley<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer may be over, but great white sharks are still very prevalent in the waters around Massachusetts. 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