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Great White Shark Eats Seal By Cape Cod Beach: Drone Video
A beachgoer flying a drone on Cape Cod caught a great white shark devouring a seal.
ORLEANS, MA — A beachgoer flying a drone at Nauset Beach in Orleans last week captured a great white shark eating a seal about 500 feet from shore. Chris Palermo called it the "craziest" thing he has ever filmed.
"I couldn’t believe I was filming," Palmero told The Boston Globe.
Palermo posted his video on Instagram Friday and the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy confirmed it was indeed a great white.
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Cape Cod is a hot spot for great white sharks, which are drawn in by the dense seal population during the summer months. Shark attacks on humans are extremely rare; the odds are about one in 12 million. Most shark attack victims survive, as bites on humans by sharks are normally exploratory. The last great white shark attack on a human in Massachusetts was In 2012, when a great white bit a man on the leg off the coast of Truro.
This is one of the craziest things I’ve ever filmed!!! Shark eats a seal 500 feet off the coast of Nauset Beach in Orleans, Massachusetts. Does anyone know what kind of shark this is? Great White??? Watch to the end to see the blood and the seal cut clean in half.
A post shared by Chris Palermo (@chris.palermo) on Jul 13, 2018 at 6:21am PDT
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