July 11, 2012 — The kayaker who raced to shore in Orleans on Saturday with a menacing dorsal fin in pursuit may have been chased by a plankton-eating basking shark, rather than a ferocious great white, the state’s shark expert said Tuesday.
Greg Skomal, of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, said photographs of the shark’s fin suggest it may have been the less dangerous fish. “By all indications, I think it’s a basking shark,” he said.
Read the full story in the Boston Globe