But conservationists have also persuaded many to care about the white shark, even root for it. In 2015, dozens of people tried to save a white shark that had become stranded on the beaches of Wellfleet, Mass. The shark did not survive, said Gregory Skomal, a senior fisheries scientist at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, who was part of the failed rescue. No one knows for sure, Chris Lowe, a professor and the director of the Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab, said. But the range of a white shark, which can live to be 70 years old, is vast.

Source: New York Times August 14, 2020 13:15 UTC