Cape Cod beach

Shark sightings briefly closed three beaches to swimming on Cape Cod Friday. Beaches on the Cape are routinely closed for one hour after shark sightings, which have been occurring on a daily basis this summer.

Two Cape Cod beaches were closed to swimmers after great white sharks were spotted near shore Thursday morning. The first sighting was reported at Marconi Beach shortly before 11:40 a.m., according to the Sharktivity app.

An increase in the number of great white sharks around Cape Cod has forced a longtime Massachusetts charity swim race to be rerouted. Cape Cod National Seashore officials have denied a permit for the 32nd annual Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla. The race was originally slated to start off Long Point Beach in Provincetown Harbor.

Swimmers at a Cape Cod beach were ordered to stay near the shore Tuesday after two sharks were spotted about a mile away.

A Cape Cod beach was closed Wednesday for the second day in a row after a shark was spotted near shore. Newcomb Hollow beach in Wellfleet was temporarily closed to swimming on Wednesday afternoon after a shark was spotted just yards off shore.

Two Massachusetts beaches were temporarily closed Tuesday afternoon due to shark sightings off the coast.

A bloody scene has shut down a Cape Cod beach after a shark was spotted feeding just 70 feet from the shore. The sighting was reported off Coast Guard Road in North Truro, where blood was seen on the water. The report stated witnesses saw a seal, a fin and an “eruption of blood” in the water.

A beach on Cape Cod closed for swimming after a shark sighting. Longnook Beach in Truro closed from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. Sunday. That’s according to a tweet from Truro Recreation.

Multiple shark sightings on Cape Cod shut down three beaches for a short time on Saturday. The first confirmed great white shark sighting occurred off Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro around 1:40 p.m., according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. Swimming was closed at that beach and also at Coast Guard Beach for an hour from 1:30 to...

Longnook Beach in Truro was closed from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m., according to a tweet from Truro Recreation.

Eight great white sharks have been spotted off Nauset Public Beach on Thursday, including one close to shore.

A Cape Cod beach was closed for an hour following a shark sighting Friday afternoon. A shark was spotted “a few yards” off of Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, according to the Eastham Fire Department.

A Cape Cod beach has been closed for an hour following a shark spotting.

A Cape Cod beach temporarily closed on Saturday after a shark was spotted near the shore.

The Cape Cod beach where a man was bitten by a shark earlier this week remains closed to swimming until further notice due to “continued shark activity,” according to police. Swimming has been prohibited at Long Nook Beach in Truro, Massachusetts, since 61-year-old William Lytton of Scarsdale, New York, was bitten by a shark 30 yards off shore.

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