The coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts is a popular gathering area for great white sharks, so Chatham Bars Inn is offering guests several ways to take advantage via a partnership with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (AWSC).
From August through October, the hotel is offering a select number of guests the chance to join AWSC scientists and crew on a research vessel for a full day off of Chatham. Working with a spotter plane, guests will observe the AWSC research team track, photograph and possibly apply a research tag to a white shark.
Starting in July, guests can explore the harbor through the eyes of a shark researcher. During a one-hour morning charter aboard Chatham Bars Inn’s private boat, a member of the AWSC will bring guests to the sandbars where grey seals haul out, looking for evidence of a predation. Guests then will cruise to the Chatham Lighthouse to view “shark cove” and bring up a shark receiver, which tracks where tagged white sharks have been, for analysis.
Chatham Bars Inn also is offering complimentary research debriefs at its Beach House, where AWSC scientists and crew unload. In addition, group lectures by Greg Skomal, senior marine fisheries scientist for Massachusetts Marine Fisheries, and Cynthia Wigren, president and co-founder of AWSC, will focus on new insights into the ecology of the white shark.