Capt. Chris Brown was off Block Island fishing for scup, a small fish that weighs about a pound, when something much bigger landed on his deck: a 500-pound, 16-foot-long common thresher shark. The big ...

Rhode Island diners got to feast their eyes on a massive 20-foot shark lurking dangerously close to a small boat in a pond on Block Island, according to authorities. Local Jen Seebeck recorded the ...

PROVIDENCE – It feels like something straight out of “Jaws” – minus that terrifying music. The camera follows the protruding shark fin gliding across the water’s surface in coastal New England, as a ...

NEW LONDON, Conn. (WFSB) - A large shark spotted near Block Island is causing a stir online. A 20 foot basking shark was spotted in the Great Salt Pond near Block Island on Memorial Day. The species ...

The Atlantic Shark Institute documented a great white shark in Rhode Island waters for the first time using an underwater video system. The juvenile female shark was filmed by a baited remote ...

“We’ve been reviewing a lot of footage over the years and had to do a triple take on that one,” said Jon Dodd, of the Atlantic Shark Institute PROVIDENCE – For the Atlantic Shark Institute, catching a ...