{"id":93609,"date":"2017-03-12T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T14:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93609"},"modified":"2017-03-12T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T14:33:43","slug":"more-great-white-sharks-appear-to-be-visiting-off-cape-cod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/12\/more-great-white-sharks-appear-to-be-visiting-off-cape-cod\/","title":{"rendered":"More great white sharks appear to be visiting off Cape Cod"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93610\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93610\" style=\"width: 527px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ccnatsea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93610\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ccnatsea.jpg\" alt=\"Cape Cod National Seashore. (Wikimedia photo, CC BY-SA 2.5.)\" width=\"527\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ccnatsea.jpg 527w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ccnatsea-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cape Cod National Seashore. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=3663845\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia photo, CC BY-SA 2.5.<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BOSTON\u2014Great white sharks are discovering what tourists have known for years: Cape Cod is a great place to spend the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Skomal, the top shark expert at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, says the latest data from a multiyear study of the ocean predators found that the number of sharks in waters off the vacation haven appears to be on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s no reason to cancel vacation. The sharks are after seals, not humans. The last documented fatal great white shark attack in Massachusetts waters was in 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers using a plane and boats spotted 147 individual sharks last summer.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s up slightly from 2015, but significantly more than the 80 individual sharks spotted in 2014, the first year of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON\u2014Great white sharks are discovering what tourists have known for years: Cape Cod is a great place to spend the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","mauthors-mark-pratt","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}