Massive, 30 Foot, Shark Off of New Hampshire Coast Petrifies Bachelorette Trip

If you ever step into the ocean on Hampton Beach, or look out over the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and think, "I wonder if there are sharks nearby..." There are. Big ones too.

There is active wildlife in our oceans that many of us take for granted and don't consider. Just last year, a humpback whale breached out of the water and split a boat in half just off the Portsmouth, NH coast.

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Over the weekend, a bachelorette party saw two 30-foot-long sharks circling the Isle of Shoals - a group of islands six miles off the coast of Rye, NH, right on the border of Maine and New Hampshire.

Imagine drinking with your friends, celebrating the bride, and you look down to see the second largest kind of shark in the world...

The 30-foot shark spotted by the wedding party was a Basking shark. Fortunately, Basking sharks pose no threat to humans as they eat plankton. But they can grow up to 40 feet long, and this one was 30 feet...a petrifying sight.

It was the largest Basking shark the boat's captain had ever seen.

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Ironically, the bride-to-be's father is a lobsterman, according to an NBCBoston article;  however, she had never seen a shark in her life.