Two paddleboarders accidentally got up close with a great white shark while 100 yards offshore of a Cape Cod beach. Margaret ...

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Margaret Bowles (pictured) and Maddie Cronin were paddleboarding off of Stony Beach in Woods Hole on July 4 when they encountered a white shark in the water (bottom right). – Maddie Cronin ...

Margaret Bowles and Maddie Cronin, two rising college sophomores, spent their July 4 paddleboarding off Stony Beach in Cape Cod, Mass., per Boston 25, 7 News, and The Boston Globe.

Margaret Bowles (pictured) and Maddie Cronin were paddleboarding off of Stony Beach in Woods Hole on July 4 when they encountered a white shark in the water. The shark's dorsal fin can be seen on ...

(Courtesy of Maddie Cronin via CAI) For the first time in more than 20 years, there has been a confirmed sighting of a great white shark off of Woods Hole.

According to our sister station, WFXT in Boston, Margaret Bowles and Maddie Cronin were roughly 100 yards offshore near Stoney Beach in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Friday before sunset.

Cronin, a student at the University of Toronto, was recording a video of Bowles splashing around when the shark’s dorsal fin surfaced, frightening the two friends. “Oh,” Bowles said as she ...

The young women sent their photos to shark experts, and the Division of Marine Fisheries confirmed it was, in fact, a great white shark! “It took a second to register that was what happened but ...

“And then I see this big fin pop up next to her. It’s like 8 inches out of the water, sort of fleshy grey, and I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness, that’s a shark. We’ve got to go,'” Bowles said.

Margaret Bowles and Maddie Cronin were paddleboarding and taking photos off of Stoney Beach on the 4th of July when Bowles noticed an alarming dorsal fin. “And I was like, ‘Oh my goodness ...