Shark fears as giant great white lurks dangerously close to this popular East Coast beach: trackers

He’s putting the “Mass” in Massachusetts.

Scientists revealed that a massive great white shark has been pinged swimming dangerously close to a popular tourist destination in Massachusetts — just like the marine “man-eater” in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic.

A live tracker shows the gargantuan predator dubbed Contender — an homage to the vessels that the research nonprofit OCEARCH uses to study sharks — was detected about 50 miles off the coast of Nantucket, per a CBS News report, between Georges Bank and the Nantucket Shoals on July 18…

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