A great white shark.
WELLFLEET – The Cape Cod National Seashore is offering tips on safety for residents and visitors when it comes to avoiding injuries from great white sharks.
Sharks sightings have increased in the region in tandem with the increase in their food source, grey seals.
Although it’s rare that a great white shark bites a human, it did happen off the coast of Truro in the summer of 2012. There have also been several recent reports of sharks attacking people off the coast of North Carolina, though not all have been great white sharks.
Seashore Superintendent George Price said that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen again.
“To great whites, it would be an inadvertent occasion but these animals are so large, that that’s an occasion you don’t want to have happen to you or your family,” said Price.
The Seashore asks that people do not swim near seals, swim close to the shore, kayak and surf in groups and do not swim alone at dawn or dusk.
The Seashore has partnered with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and a number of groups to produce shark advisory signs on beaches and brochures for beach users.
