{"id":1074027,"date":"2026-07-07T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1074027\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:48:18","slug":"see-it-rare-great-white-shark-captured-on-camera-in-expected-states-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1074027\/","title":{"rendered":"See it: Rare great white shark captured on camera in expected states first"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00a0In a rare underwater view, a great white shark was spotted swimming off Block Island in Rhode Island. The Atlantic Shark Institute said this may be the first instance of a white shark being photographed in Rhode Island waters.<\/p>\n

BLOCK ISLAND, R.I.- <\/strong>In a rare underwater view,\u00a0a\u00a0great white shark<\/a>\u00a0was spotted swimming off Block Island\u2014marking what the Atlantic Shark Institute said may be the first time a white shark has ever been caught on camera<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Rhode Island waters.<\/p>\n

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The potentially historic sighting occurred last week during a 50-square-mile, hours-long search led by Jon Dodd, Executive Director of the Atlantic Shark Institute, and Sarah Callan, Manager of the Animal Rescue Program at Mystic Aquarium.<\/p>\n

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The Atlantic Shark Institute might have recorded the first underwater footage of a great white shark in Rhode Island waters off Block Island.<\/p>\n

(The Atlantic Shark Institute\u00a0)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The team launched the mission to track a drifting 40-foot humpback whale<\/a> carcass after initial videos from the public surfaced showing a massive great white feeding on it.<\/p>\n

VIDEO: MASSIVE GREAT WHITE SHARK FEEDS ON DEAD WHALE OFF THE COAST OF RHODE ISLAND<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

According to the Atlantic Shark Institute, the team eventually located the whale floating several miles south-southeast of Block Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Atlantic Shark Institute might have recorded the first underwater footage of a great white shark in Rhode Island waters off Block Island.<\/p>\n

(The Atlantic Shark Institute\u00a0)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was there that they documented an estimated 8-foot great white shark feeding on the remains, as Dodd was able to capture the rare and exciting footage underwater.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The great white shark was feeding on a whale carcass off Block Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(The Atlantic Shark Institute\u00a0)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It was a great opportunity for Sarah to take samples from the whale for research and as luck would have it, this great white was found feeding on it,” the Institute shared on Facebook regarding the encounter, echoing a previous post where they emphasized the sheer rarity of the event.<\/p>\n

WATCH: FIRST UNDERWATER FOOTAGE SHOWS AN ADULT GREAT WHITE SHARK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN OFF THE ITALIAN COAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“White shark sightings are few and far between until a whale dies and then they seem to appear out of nowhere as this one did,” the Institute said when the initial video surfaced of a whale carcass being preyed on by a great white<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Just a few days later, the carcass washed up on Crescent Beach with innumerable shark bites on it, and with that, “the saga of this whale and the sharks it attracted ended!” the Institute concluded in their Facebook post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0In a rare underwater view, a great white shark was spotted swimming off Block Island in Rhode Island.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1074028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[933,152145,388,16007,47724,70,16,15,978,1717],"class_list":["post-1074027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-learn","tag-lifestyle","tag-ocean","tag-rhode-island","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116878542651481143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1074028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}