Photo Shows Great White Shark Surprising Paddleboarders Off Cape Cod: "We've Got To Get Out Of Here."

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Updated on: July 9, 2025 / 8:13 AM EDT

They say a picture is worth a thousand words and a photograph of a shark taken by two teenagers in Massachusetts last weekend certainly tells a story.

This photo taken off Woods Hole on Cape Cod on July 4th shows a great white shark just feet away from Margaret Bowles on a paddleboard - and she didn't know it.

Wildlife experts confirmed it was a great white shark.

Margaret Bowles was paddleboarding just feet away from a great white shark (lower right corner) off Cape Cod on July 4, 2025/Madeleine Cronin/CBS Boston

Margaret Bowles was paddleboarding just feet away from this great white shark off Cape Cod on July 4, 2025/Madeleine Cronin/CBS Boston

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