Another summer time weekend on the Cape means extra shark alerts, sightings and detections flooding the Sharktivity app.
Cape seashores quickly shut right down to swimming on Sunday after nice white sharks had been noticed and detected near shore, in response to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app.
Around 9:53 a.m. on Sunday, a white shark was noticed on the floor a couple of hundred yards off of Nauset Beach in Orleans.
“SHARK ALERT !!,” tweeted MA Sharks, which is run by native shark professional John Chisholm, who additionally confirms shark sightings for the Sharktivity app. “Due to white shark sighting the water will be closed to swimming at Nauset Public Beach until 11:00 A.M.”
The 11-foot male tagged white shark named Dylan was additionally detected on the LeCount Hollow Beach buoy in Wellfleet Sunday morning.
“SHARK ALERT !!,” MA Sharks tweeted once more. “Swimming closes at LeCount Hollow until 12:15 due to detection of a tagged white shark.”
Other shark sightings on Sunday included a pilot recognizing a white shark about 100 yards offshore south of Nauset Inlet, together with a pilot seeing a shark off of Ballston Beach in Truro.
Shark sightings and detections have been rising in latest weeks as nice whites migrate to the Cape to hunt for seals.
Also, sharks have been noticed increasingly off the Maine coast. On Saturday, one of many confirmed sightings on the Sharktivity app included a white shark injuring a seal off of Georgetown Island in Maine.
A spotter up north additionally took a video of a white shark off Harpswell, Maine, which was the location of the state’s first lethal shark assault in 2020.
“White shark video’d off Harpswell, Maine yesterday,” MA Sharks tweeted. “If you’re lucky enough to see a white shark, be a #citizenscientists and submit your sighting on the @Sharktivity app.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”