Shark Tracking Efforts Ramped up After Wave of Encounters off Northeastern Coast

Miles O’Brien:

As beachgoers in New York remain on alert, larger great whites are surging off the coast of Cape Cod, swimming in the shallows.

To raise awareness of the increased population there, Atlantic White Shark Conservancy developed a Sharktivity app, where users can record and log shark sightings and encounters.

But why has Cape Cod quickly become one of the largest hot spots for great whites in the world?

Bryan Legare, Center for Coastal Studies: Globally, we're losing sharks, we're losing habitat, we're losing these critical creatures in the different ecosystems.

In the U.S. waters on the East Coast, we have got a little bit of a different story.