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Terrified Massachusetts paddleboarders capture close encounter with great white shark off Cape Cod beach: ‘We got to go’
nypost.com ^ | July 9, 2025 | Nicholas McEntyre

Posted on 07/09/2025 6:41:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN

What a Jaws-some experience.

A great white shark shocked two Massachusetts paddleboarders as it swam just feet away from the two friends enjoying their Fourth of July evening on the water.

College students Margaret Bowles and Maddie Cronin were paddling in the waters off Woods Hole on the southwest end of Cape Cod when they saw the predator’s estimated 8-inch fin.

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1 posted on 07/09/2025 6:41:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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Was that music playing ?


2 posted on 07/09/2025 6:44:09 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“8-inch fin”.....that’s big enough.


3 posted on 07/09/2025 6:46:23 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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And I have trouble balancing on paddle boards......


4 posted on 07/09/2025 6:47:15 AM PDT by PGR88
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Paddle boards? They definitely needed a bigger boat.


5 posted on 07/09/2025 6:47:40 AM PDT by noiseman (I The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: V_TWIN
Hahaha...the video of one of the girls, smiling and paddling her board laying on her stomach, her arms suddenly elevating and her face becoming rigid as she saw the fin was priceless!


6 posted on 07/09/2025 6:53:56 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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7 posted on 07/09/2025 6:54:06 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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“Candygram!”


8 posted on 07/09/2025 6:54:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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9 posted on 07/09/2025 6:54:28 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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Can’t you feel them circling, honey?
Can’t you feel them swimming around?
You got fins to the left, fins to the right
And you’re the only bait in town


10 posted on 07/09/2025 6:55:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I miss Jimmy.....RIP


11 posted on 07/09/2025 7:04:05 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Fourth of July evening on the water

Yes dumbasses, primary feeding time. Good time to enjoy some paddleboarding on the water.

12 posted on 07/09/2025 7:07:19 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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13 posted on 07/09/2025 7:07:46 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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BTTT!!!


14 posted on 07/09/2025 7:08:21 AM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

HOLLYWOOD!

(Literally the same actress...)

15 posted on 07/09/2025 7:27:03 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: dfwgator

You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread


16 posted on 07/09/2025 7:48:37 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Tommy Revolts

Yep


17 posted on 07/09/2025 8:14:08 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: V_TWIN

Nothing good ever comes out of Wood’s Hole.


18 posted on 07/09/2025 8:21:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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ISWYDT!


19 posted on 07/09/2025 8:22:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Lots of sharks around the Cape because there are lots of Gray seals, especially around Monomoy Island - but also up and down the Ocean coast.


20 posted on 07/09/2025 8:29:36 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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