
Your Survival Guy’s been to “the Block” many times. The Old Harbor basin is where the ferries come and go.
Jack Perry reports the sighting in the Providence Journal, writing:
A shark paid a rare visit to Block Island’s Old Harbor basin over the holiday weekend.
New Shoreham Harbormaster Kate McConville warned the public, saying in a Facebook post Monday, “We have had multiple reports of a shark sighting in and around the vicinity of the Old Harbor basin. Please use caution when around the water and report all sightings to the Department.”
McConville posted a photograph of the shark, and it appears to be a mature shortfin mako, according to Jon Dodd, executive director of the Atlantic Shark Institute in Wakefield.
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