Several towns around the Northeast, including beach and vacation hotspots like Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Long Island, New York, have seen a spike in shark activity over the past few weeks – at times issuing temporary swimming restrictions out of fear of incident.
Video captured by resident Nick Gault on a boat near the shore of Nantucket around Great Point shows the water dyed blood-red as a shark feasted on a seal, its carcass washing up on shore where seabirds started pecking at it.
Great Point, which hosts the Costaka-Coatue Wildlife Refuge owned by the Trustees of Reservations and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has prohibited swimming in the area after numerous shark sightings, the Nantucket Current reported.