Nantucket is an island in Massachusetts that lies in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Cod. You may be about to visit Nantucket and be interested to know if there are any great white sharks in Nantucket and Nantucket Sound.
There are great white sharks in Nantucket and Nantucket Sound mostly from June to October when waters warm to over 12°C (53.6°F). Great white sharks prefer temperatures above 12°C and come to feed on the proliferation of harbour and grey seals before heading back down south along the US coastline.
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Shark tracker Nantucket – Great white shark Charlotte pinged near Nantucket
Great white shark Charlotte has a tracker and been pinged near Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. When white shark Charlotte was tagged on 29th March 2021 in Onslow Bay, she was 338lbs (153kg) and 8′ 1″ (2.46 metres) long.
The tracking lines in the above image of Charlotte great white shark was when she last visited the area around Nantucket Island in August 2021. Prior to this she was pinged on 15th August 2021 in Bigelow Bight just off from Ogunquit, before she swam across Massachusetts bay to Cape Cod Bay.
Why are there so many great white sharks in Nantucket?
The reason why there are so many great white sharks in Nantucket is because of increased numbers of harbour and grey seals since these seals were protected by law under the US Marine Mammal Protection Act. Great white sharks are a protected species too and hunt this growing seal population.
Video of great white shark in Elizabeth Islands near Martha’s Vineyard
The following video shows a large great white shark in a salt water pond on an island chain of the Elizabeth Islands just north of Martha’s Vineyard.
Great White visits Martha’s Vineyard area Just months before the island of Martha’s Vineyard played host to the first ever JawsFest, a REAL Great White shark entered a pond in the nearby island chain called the Elizabeth Islands. But this shark was in no big hurry to leave the tiny inlet. The shark hung around for over a week and my family and I had the good fortune to drive down to Woods Hole from New Hampshire, pay a guy $100 and have him take us out to the pond in his very small, but incredibly fast boat! Our adventure paid off, as we did indeed catch a glimpse of the shark, and my camera batteries held out just long enough to capture the giant beast thrashing his dorsal fin and tail at an approaching boat. A once in a lifetime experience for a bigtime JAWS nut.
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Are There Great White Sharks In Nantucket And Nantucket Sound?
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Article written by Russell Bowyer who has been a scuba diver since diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 1989. After his first dive he trained as a BSAC diver in the UK. He attained his Diver Leader certification with BSAC. He then went on to become a scuba diving instructor, teaching others how to dive and was voted as Diving Officer and Treasurer for the Saffron Walden BSAC club too. Russell has dived all over the world, including the UK, on liveaboards in the Red Sea, the Caribbean, South Africa and the USA. Russell is experienced in all dive types, including drift diving, deep dives that involved decompression stops and recreational dives too.
