Arthur Medici

Officials on Cape Cod are reflecting on the one-year anniversary of Massachusetts’ first fatal shark attack in more than 80 years. Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent Brian Carlstrom tells The Cape Cod Times that the famous tourist region has improved its emergency response following the death of 26-year-old Revere resident Arthur Medici last Sept. 15 while bodyboarding off a beach in Wellfleet.

Police in a Cape Cod town are investigating after three fake legs were placed near a memorial for the victim of a fatal shark attack last summer. Wellfleet police told the Cape Cod Times that the fake legs were placed near a memorial stone at the town-owned Newcomb Hollow Beach for Arthur Medici, who died last September when he was...

Shark warnings are the new normal around Cape Cod, so local surfers are turning to new technology to safely share the waters with the marine beasts. “They’re everywhere,” surfer Shawn Vecchione said. “One day I counted 20 (sharks) right after I got out of the water.” It’s been getting easier for long-time surfers on the Cape to spot the...

A great white shark was spotted about 40 yards off a beach in Cape Cod on Tuesday. The shark was seen about 40 yards off Marconi Beach in Wellfleet around noon, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.

Duxbury Beach was temporarily closed Friday after an unconfirmed shark sighting. The news was communicated via a tweet from Duxbury Police Beach Operations shortly before 2 p.m. The beach was reopened within an hour.

Summer shark season has arrived, as three great white sharks were spotted off different areas of Cape Cod on Monday morning. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, two great whites were spotted Monday afternoon in Cape Cod Bay.

Summer shark season has arrived, as three great white sharks were spotted off different areas of Cape Cod on Monday morning. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, two great whites were spotted Monday afternoon in Cape Cod Bay.

Organizers of an effort to raise $200,000 to buy a pair of shark-detecting sonar buoys to deploy off Cape Cod say they will return $36,000 already raised because it’s too late to install them this year. Heather Doyle and Ashley Penn launched the effort and named it the Arthur Clever Buoy Pilot after Arthur Medici, the 26-year-old Revere man killed...

The state is granting the six Cape Cod towns nearly $400,000 to use for shark safety preparedness and response programs ahead of the 2019 summer season. Chatham town manager Jill Goldsmith and Provincetown town manager David Panagore worked together to prepare for the summer and requested the state for assistance. Now, the Cape towns will receive a $383,000 grant to increase beachgoers’ safety.

Six months after the Bay State’s first fatal shark attack in decades, neighbors on Cape Cod say more needs to be done to protect people enjoying Cape waters this summer. Heather Doyle is one of several people now raising money to install new technology to detect sharks in the water in real time. Shark buoys are already deployed in Massachusetts...

Six months after the Bay State’s first fatal shark attack in decades, neighbors on Cape Cod say more needs to be done to protect people enjoying Cape waters this summer. Heather Doyle is one of several people now raising money to install new technology to detect sharks in the water in real time. Shark buoys are already deployed in Massachusetts...

A remembrance is being held on the Cape Cod beach where a young man became Massachusetts’ first shark attack fatality since 1936.

A man boogie boarding earlier this month off a Cape Cod beach died after being attacked by a shark, becoming the state’s first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years....
Bob Benson and his girlfriend Gail Sluis were among those who tried to help save 26-year-old Arthur Medici’s life. Benson recalled the tragic incident as “traumatizing.”...
Medici’s death prompted officials and...

The Massachusetts town where a man was fatally attacked by a shark this month is holding a public meeting to consider how the community can respond.

When a shark killed Arthur Medici at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet on Saturday afternoon, it was the first deadly shark attack in Massachusetts since 1936. There may not have been any “no swimming” signs up and there hadn’t been any shark sightings in the area, but marine biologist Dr. Greg Skomal said these days we have to always assume...

Friends and family of the victim of the first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts waters in more than 80 years are paying their final respects.

Newly released 911 calls paint a vivid picture of the chaotic scene at Newcomb Hollow Beach after a shark attack Saturday that ultimately claimed the life of a 26-year-old Massachusetts man.

Just past a growing memorial for Saturday’s shark attack victim, and despite “No Swimming” signs, nearly a dozen surfers were in ocean Monday near Wellfleet, Massachusetts. “A tragedy this past Saturday really has us looking for different answers,” Orleans Fire Chief Tony Pike said Monday.

A mourning father in Brazil took to Facebook to express his grief over the death of his 26-year-old son, who was killed during a shark attack in Cape Cod.

For the second time in as many days, at least a dozen surfers at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, rode the waves, ignoring warning signs posted at the entrance since Saturday’s deadly shark attack. The attack has prompted town officials to discuss ways to improve beach safety.