Wednesday 1 June 2022 10:28 PM Great white shark tears apart seal in front of horrified tourists off Nantucket ... trends now
A great white shark feasting on a seal in front of terrified tourists off of Nantucket's coast marked Massachusetts' first official shark sighting of the season.
The spotting was reported and recorded on May 29 by Kyla Little, according to Storyful.
The white shark captured its prey just yards from the beach, shocking onlookers on Little's boat, as a blood darkened the water.
A woman in the video can be heard yelling in the background: 'Oh my God, you can see the blood!'
Another spectator can also be heard asking, 'There's literally sharks that close?'.
In the aftermath of Saturday's event, Little told Storyful: 'We've spent so much time on and in these waters and have never seen anything like that, especially so close to the shore.'
'Seeing it with the beach so close and people in the background next to the seals was pretty crazy,' she added.
The sighting occurred near the island's Green Point Lighthouse.
It was registered as the 'the first official sighting of the season,' said the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
A great white shark (left) was spotted off the coast of Nantucket's Green Point Lighthouse by people on a boat on Sunday, as it hunted down a seal (right)
The great white's sighting over Memorial Day weekend was logged into Sharktivity App along with the spotting of another shark, as the app tracks and confirms great white sightings
It remains unclear how large the shark was but great white's are the world's largest predatory fish.
Adult females are 15-21 feet long while adult males measure 11-13
