TRURO, MASS. (WHDH) - Five Cape Cod beaches were closed to swimming on Thursday morning following great white shark sightings near the shore.
Swimmers were ordered out of the water for at least an hour at Lecount Hollow Beach and Maguire Landing Beach in Wellfleet, Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, Nauset Beach in Orleans, and Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app.
The Conservancy shared a video of Dr. Greg Skomal tagging a white shark off Nauset Beach.
It’s a research day! @GregSkomal tagged one white shark off of Nauset South to start off the morning. Tagging is done by Dr. Greg Skomal of @MassDMF. pic.twitter.com/C6sXXrcCpN
— Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (@A_WhiteShark) August 6, 2020
A Massachusetts State Police Air Wing crew also spotted a shark off Cahoon Hollow Beach in Wellfleet.
SKY7 HD flew to the outer Cape and captured video of a shark lurking in the water off Coast Guard Beach around 2 p.m.
Nauset Beach was closed to swimming again until 2:30 p.m. following another sighting.
A great white shark sighting was reported near Newcomb Hollow Beach on Wednesday and Tuesday as well.
The sightings near Newcomb Hollow came after state police captured a stunning video of two great white sharks lurking about 50 yards offshore over the weekend.
Another video showed a shark swimming about a quarter-mile from the shoreline at Nauset Beach in Eastham on Saturday.
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