Updated on July 19, 2021 at 6:47 pm
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Scientists at the New England Aquarium are asking for help identifying a great white shark that was spotted eating a dead whale off the coast of Maine at the end of last week.
On Friday, Steve Brettell and a friend captured the shark on camera shortly before the whale carcass washed up on Mother's Beach in Kennebunk.
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Brettell said he's been on out boats regularly since 1989 but had never seen a great white until last week.