He’s doing it for the sharks. Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh set out Thursday to attempt the first-ever swim around Martha’s Vineyard where the blockbuster movie “Jaws” was filmed 50 years ago. In so ...

Lewis Pugh has followed an unspoken rule during his career as one of the world’s most daring endurance swimmers: Don’t talk about sharks. But he plans to break that this week on a swim around Martha’s ...

British swimmer Lewis Pugh on Monday competed the first of its kind “Shark Swim” around Martha’s Vineyard. The swim, timed to the 50th anniversary of the release of the blockbuster Jaws, was planned ...

Fifty years after “Jaws” portrayed great white sharks as monsters, an endurance swimmer is trying to flip that fearful narrative for a new generation. Lewis Pugh has started swimming around Martha’s ...

To change perceptions of sharks, swimmer Lewis Pugh takes the plunge at Martha’s Vineyard Sharks have been cast as the ultimate villain ever since the movie “Jaws” was released 50 years ago this ...

Lewis Pugh has followed an unspoken rule during his career as one of the world’s most daring endurance swimmers: Don’t talk about sharks. But he plans to break that this week on a swim around Martha’s ...

The waters of two Massachusetts beaches were cleared of swimmers over the past week following two unconfirmed sightings of white sharks off the coast, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy ...

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — Lewis Pugh has followed an unspoken rule during his career as one of the world’s most daring endurance swimmers: Don’t talk about sharks. But he plans to break that this ...

Bull sharks tend to be aggressive and live near shorelines, which has earned them fearsome reputations. One eight-foot-long female recently logged a record breaking 4,000-mile journey. Photograph By ...