File Under: The One That Didn’t Get Away. Sharks are having a moment, especially off Cape Cod. But the apex predator likes to vary its vacations. When this photo was snapped on Aug. 15, 1996, fishermen were hauling a 17-foot Great White Shark off a boat onto a pier in Beverly. Richard Birarelli and his son Michael were fishing for cod, haddock and flounder about 20 miles off the North Shore when they said the shark got caught in their net. (AP Photo/Tom O’Connor)