Cape Cod Bay

What started as a peaceful morning at one Massachusetts beach soon turned into chaos when visitors noticed a great white shark swimming dangerously close to the shore.

The blue water of Buzzards Bay glittered as boats bobbed on the gently undulating surface and gulls swooped among their sails. The seaside air at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was thick with the sweet smell of grass and the tang of saltwater. This was late summer on Cape Cod - our ocean world at its most inviting.

What started as a peaceful morning at one Massachusetts beach soon turned into chaos when visitors noticed a great white shark swimming dangerously close to the shore.

The blue water of Buzzards Bay glittered as boats bobbed on the gently undulating surface and gulls swooped among their sails. The seaside air at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was thick with the sweet smell of grass and the tang of saltwater. This was late summer on Cape Cod - our ocean world at its most inviting.