Shark Assaults in Maine Had been Unthinkable — Till Final Summer season

Final 12 months's first-ever deadly shark assault jolted Mainers into acknowledging that nice whites usually swim off the state's shores — and that there’s a lot about them we don’t know. Monday, July 27, 2020, dawned sultry and shiny on Bailey Island, a village of about 400 full-time residents within the midcoast city of Harpswell. Early that morning, lobsterboats sputtered out of picturesque Mackerel Cove. A lone harbor seal appeared, then ducked again underwater. A handful of summer time guests watched from their docks, sipping espresso. On the cove’s east facet, at a small and shallow inlet off the bridged island’s essential highway,…