A great white shark shocked two Massachusetts paddleboarders as it swam just feet away from the two friends enjoying their ...

The sighting by the two paddle boarders was the first confirmed sighting of a great white shark off Woods Hole in over two ...

As Cronin, 18, snapped photos of Bowles, 19, around 7:30 p.m., a great white shark moved through the water nearby, its dorsal ...

Two Cape Cod paddleboarders are still processing a Fourth of July scare on the water off Woods Hole. Margaret Bowles and ...

I see this eight-inch, fleshy, grey fin like come up next to her. I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness, that’s a shark!’” ...

Two paddleboarders had an alarmingly close call with a large shark.

Margaret Bowles and Maddie Cronin were paddleboarding and taking photos off of Stoney Beach on the Fourth of July when Bowles ...

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.