Paddling Nantucket with Great White Sharks?

[Glenn MacGrady]

A fisherman caught, unhooked and quickly released a great white shark on a beach on Nantucket. One of our members plies these island waters in various canoes, kayaks and an outrigger.

Fisherman speaks out after catching great white shark

A fisherman is speaking out after reeling in a great white shark off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts last weekend.

www.goodmorningamerica.com

 

[Pseudonym]

Ok Glenn, I'll take the bait!

There are a lot more sharks out here then there used to be because the gray seal population has exploded, but I don't worry about sharks when I'm paddling. I try not to think about them when I'm surfing. I used to do some surf photography. I would put my camera in a waterproof housing and swim out into the break with fins and a wetsuit; basically dressing up exactly like a seal. That was freaky.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Ok Glenn, I'll take the bait!

I don't worry about sharks

Nice to know I have a confident Nantucket . . . chum.

 

[Erica]

We don’t have great whites, but we do have some nasty ones, bull sharks and hammerheads. I caught and released a black tip shark in the Ten Thousand Islands. A kayaker hooked one of the big sharks in Estero Bay and it pulled him along like a toy.