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Researchers with Maine’s Department of Marine Resources have placed dozens of buoys off of beaches to track white sharks. They could help prevent incidents like Maine’s first fatal shark attack, which occurred off of Bailey Island last July. There are 32 buoys total stretching from York in southern Maine to Squirrel Island, near Boothbay on the Midcoast, according to...

The past week was another busy one for shark sightings. Sharks were spotted off the coast of Maine, off Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, off Nantucket, and mostly swimming and feeding off Cape Cod. This summer, sharks have been spotted further north than in recent years, in areas like New Hampshire and southern Maine, where a woman was fatally attacked…

A total of four great white sharks were reported in the Chatham area. There was also a confirmed sighting that closed Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, and another that closed Newcomb Hollow Beach. Coast guard Beach in Truro was also closed Saturday due to a shark sighting.

A week after Maine’s first-ever fatal shark attack, beach restrictions at state parks are being lifted. From last Monday through Sunday, swimmers at Crescent Beach, Popham Beach, Ferry Beach and Reid State Parks were all limited to water up to their ankles, knees or waists, depending on the location. On Friday, Maine Marine Patrol confirmed it found a shark...

July and August are prime shark season in New England, especially off Cape Cod. But already this summer, numerous sharks have been spotted even further north, in areas like the North Shore of Massachusetts and even southern Maine, where a woman was fatally attacked by a great white last month. So far, there have been over 250 shark sightings off…

The Reigels, vacationing on Cape Cod from Pennsylvania, spotted several sharks Saturday about a quarter mile off the coast of Nauset Beach in Eastham.

Authorities in Maine said Tuesday the shark that killed a woman in a rare attack off the state’s coast was a great white. The shark bite killed Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63, of New York City, the Maine Department of Marine Resources said. The shark fatally bit Holowach off Bailey Island on Monday while she was swimming with her daughter, who was...

A Maine man who witnessed Monday’s deadly shark attack described what he saw from his own home a day later. Stephen Arnold was working inside his home Monday afternoon and looking out his window. “I saw the two swimmers, right there at that rock ledge. They were actually splashing, and laughing, and talking with each other,” said Arnold. He...

A woman was killed by a shark Monday in Maine.

Julie Dimperio Holowach was swimming with her daughter off Harpswell’s Bailey Island when she was attacked.

The woman killed in Maine’s first known deadly shark attack Monday has been identified as a 63-year-old woman from New York City who had a summer home in the community. The Maine Department of Marine Resources on Tuesday identified the woman as Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63. She was attacked by a great white shark, authorities said Tuesday. “It is tragic…

A woman has died in what authorities in Maine are describing as an apparent shark attack Monday near Bailey Island.

A woman has died in what authorities in Maine are describing as an apparent shark attack. A witness said the woman was swimming “when she was injured in what appeared to be a shark attack,” according to a statement from the Maine Department of Marine Resources. Kayakers in the area took her to shore, where paramedics were called. But she…