Crime & Safety
Shark Sighting Suspends Swimming At Cape Cod Beach
The beach is temporarily closed in the same area where researchers filmed a close encounter with a shark last week.
WELLFLEET, MA – Swimming was suspended at a Wellfleet beach Monday after a great white shark was spotted in the area. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy's Sharktivity map reported the sighting around 1:40 p.m. near Marconi Beach.
The beach will be closed for about an hour.
Researchers encountered a great white shark off the coast of Wellfleet last week while attempting to film sharks underwater. Watch the shark leap out of the water beneath a startled biologist's feet in a video shared by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Monday morning.
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Confirmed Shark Alert on 2018-08-06T13:38:00-0400! View online - https://t.co/gq1MFL50SJ
— Sharktivity (@sharktivity) August 6, 2018
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that researchers' encounter with a shark happened Monday morning. The video was shared on Monday, but it was filmed last week.
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