'Awesome' Great White Shark Video on Cape Cod Also Terrifying

CHATHAM, MA — Great white shark researchers this week captured up-close, underwater footage of a great white shark eating a seal off off Cape Cod. The footage was captured with an underwater GoPro; it shows an 11-foot female great white tearing apart the seal carcass as if it were a piece of bread.

The feeding happened Monday near Monomoy Island, about 3 miles south of Lighthouse Beach in Chatham. It came a few days after six great white sharks were seen feeding on a dead whale near Truro on Cape Cod's northern tip. Three beaches in the area were closed. Truro is the site of the last great white attack on a human in Cape Cod. On July 30, 2012, a great white bit a man on the leg. He survived.

The footage this week was captured by Greg Skomal, a state Division of Marine Fisheries biologist who works with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. The conservancy has a shark tracking app; nine great whites have been detected close to Cape Cod's eastern shore since Sunday.

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