--- description: Many people rushed to help the beached shark, but it didn't make it title: Great White Shark Dies After Beaching on Cape Cod image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21d0b53af2f0afe5/6988628aa988ca4c776b437c/shark-cape-cod.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Gigantic Great White Shark Dies After Beaching on Cape Cod by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 8, 2015 3:01 PM CUT  Beach goers formed a bucket brigade to try to keep the shark alive on Sept. 6, 2015 in Whitecrest Beach, Mass. Beach goers formed a bucket brigade to try to keep the shark alive on Sept. 6, 2015 in Whitecrest Beach, Mass.Wellfleet Massachusetts Police Department by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 8, 2015 3:01 PM CUT Dozens of holiday beach-goers formed a bucket brigade to try to save a mammoth great white shark that beached itself over the weekend on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, but the beast died, authorities said. At least 100 people at White Crest Beach for the Labor Day weekend rushed to help the 1-ton, 14-foot-long shark, which was reported beached at 8:09 a.m. Sunday, Wellfleet police said. Many of them relayed buckets of water to splash on the shark while specialists from the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and the National Park Service were called. Police said the shark was helped out to deeper water by… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/huge-great-white-shark-dies-after-beaching-cape-cod-n423091?cid=par-time-article%5F20150908 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4024999/great-white-shark-cape-cod/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4024999/great-white-shark-cape-cod/"},"headline":"Gigantic Great White Shark Dies After Beaching on Cape Cod","datePublished":"2015-09-08T15:01:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:45:20.300Z","description":"Many rushed to help the shark, but it didn't make it","url":"https://time.com/4024999/great-white-shark-cape-cod/","keywords":["animals","Massachusetts","shark"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21d0b53af2f0afe5/6988628aa988ca4c776b437c/shark-cape-cod.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21d0b53af2f0afe5/6988628aa988ca4c776b437c/shark-cape-cod.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Shark-Cape-Cod","caption":"Shark-Cape-Cod","creditText":"Wellfleet Massachusetts Police Department","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4024999/great-white-shark-cape-cod/","name":"Gigantic Great White Shark Dies After Beaching on Cape Cod"}}]}] ```