Coastal dwellers know a second shark attack is unlikely — but that doesn’t stop the fear

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 29, 2020

A woman was attacked and killed by a great white shark while swimming in Mackerel Cove off Bailey Island in Harpswell on Monday. Two days after the attack, shockwaves reverberated out from Mackerel Cove to the Maine coast and beyond as locals and tourists tried to make sense of the unthinkable.