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- A couple looking for seashells on the beach in North Carolina stumbled upon a Great White Shark just laying there on the sand
- They took photos of the juvenile Great White which then went viral on social media
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“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition or a deceased great white shark chilling out on the beach” — Monty Python, probably. I grew up on Siesta Key, Florida and experienced countless red tide algae blooms that left the beach covered in dead sealife but never in my wildest dreams would I ever expect to see a deceased Great White Shark just laying there on the beach.
Warning: the pictures below are of a deceased Great White shark so if that’s something that will both you then you should stop reading/scrolling.
But that’s precisely what a couple from Virginia found when they were out hunting for seashells on North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore. They stumbled upon what appears to be a very recently deceased juvenile Great White shark measuring over six feet in length. And it was just sitting there on the sand with a red mouth indicating that it had recently eaten something.
The couple photographed the deceased shark and shared it to a popular Hatteras Island Facebook group with 40K+ members and that’s when the story went viral. Some people suspected it was a tiger shark but it’s pretty darn obvious this is a juvenile Great White. These sharks tend to move down the East Coast towards the Carolinas and even down to Florida throughout the winter before returning to Massachusetts in the summer but rarely does anyone get to see a specimen up close like this.
Couple Finds Great White Sark On Hatteras Beach
Dana Rose and her boyfriend Zack Culbertson shared with The News & Observer they didn’t even think the shark was dead at first. They said “When we first saw it, we wanted to make sure it wasn’t alive and if we needed to help it. It seemed to me that the skin was peeling off of it. I could not see any bite with blood or anything.”
They said they visited the exact same spot on the beach the previous night and the shark wasn’t there so at the very least, they know it arrived within a short time frame.