As Cronin, 18, snapped photos of Bowles, 19, around 7:30 p.m., a great white shark moved through the water nearby, its dorsal fin slicing through the surface.

Life imitated art Friday in the waters off Cape Cod. Two paddleboarders spotted a great white shark on the Fourth of July off Stony Beach in the Woods Hole section of Falmouth, Massachusetts, town officials said.

Two Cape Cod paddleboarders are still processing a Fourth of July scare on the water off Woods Hole. Margaret Bowles and Maddie Cronin were roughly 100 yards off shore near Stoney Beach in Falmouth Friday before sunset. They decided to bring their phones out to take pictures. Bowles said she saw something pop up next to Maddie’s board.