About 15 years ago, scuba divers began encountering one of the world’s largest predatory sharks -- the sixgill --- lurking in the waters around Seattle.
For a time, Puget Sound was a mecca for the sharks -- until they suddenly disappeared. What happened to the sixgills became one of Seattle’s great marine mysteries.
Now some wonder if the sharks might be back.
Reporting for EarthFix, Michael Werner has the story.