{"id":749005,"date":"2026-07-07T18:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749005\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:56:16","slug":"great-white-shark-filmed-feasting-in-rhode-island-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749005\/","title":{"rendered":"Great white shark filmed feasting in Rhode Island waters"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a rare underwater view,\u00a0a\u00a0great white\u00a0shark<\/a>\u00a0was spotted swimming off Block Island \u2014 marking what the Atlantic Shark Institute said may be the first time a white shark has ever been\u00a0caught on camera\u00a0in\u00a0Rhode Island waters.<\/p>\n

The potentially historic sighting occurred last week during a 50-square-mile, hours-long search led by Jon Dodd, Executive Director of the Atlantic Shark Institute, and Sarah Callan, Manager of the Animal Rescue Program at Mystic Aquarium.<\/p>\n

The team launched the mission to track a drifting 40-foot humpback\u00a0whale<\/a>\u00a0carcass after initial videos from the public surfaced showing a massive great white feeding on it.<\/p>\n

According to the Atlantic Shark Institute, the team eventually located the whale floating several miles south-southeast of Block Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was there that they documented an estimated 8-foot great white shark feeding on the remains, as Dodd was able to capture the rare and exciting footage underwater.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a great opportunity for Sarah to take samples from the whale for research, and as luck would have it, this great white was found feeding<\/a> on it,\u201d the Institute shared on Facebook regarding the encounter, echoing a previous post where they emphasized the sheer rarity of the event.<\/p>\n

The estimated 8-foot great white shark was caught on camera off of Block Island. The Atlantic Shark Institute<\/p>\n

The Atlantic Shark Institute said it may be the first time a great white shark has ever been caught on camera in Rhode Island waters. The Atlantic Shark Institute<\/p>\n

The shark was documented when feeding on a humpback whale carcass. The Atlantic Shark Institute<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite shark sightings are few and far between until a whale dies, and then they seem to appear out of nowhere as this one did,\u201d the Institute said when the initial video surfaced of a whale carcass being preyed on by a\u00a0great white.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just a few days later, the carcass washed up on Crescent Beach with innumerable shark bites on it, and with that, \u201cthe saga of this whale and the sharks it attracted ended!\u201d the Institute concluded in their Facebook post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a rare underwater view,\u00a0a\u00a0great white\u00a0shark\u00a0was spotted swimming off Block Island \u2014 marking what the Atlantic Shark Institute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,17756,12604,16834,3,880,9460,21,19,22,20,25,194,24],"class_list":["post-749005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-beaches","tag-great-white-sharks","tag-humpback-whales","tag-news","tag-rhode-island","tag-sharks","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}