Newcomb Hollow Beach

The Wellfleet Select Board recently voted unanimously to install the bench in memory of Arthur Medici at Newcomb Hollow Beach, the Cape Cod Times reported.

At least eight great white sharks were spotted Sunday along Cape Cod, causing the closure of several beaches for part of the day. Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, was ordered closed to swimming until 2 p.m. following the detection of a great white shark by a real-time receiver, the Sharktivity App. Coast Guard Beach was closed to swimming from…

At least eight great white sharks were spotted along Cape Cod on Sunday.

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.

There were at least two confirmed shark sightings Saturday at the beach in Wellfleet.

For the first time ever, Cape Cod beaches are receiving real-time alerts when sharks approach. The new buoy is located off of Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, where a man was killed by a white shark last year. Any time a tagged shark swims by the buoy, beach managers get an alert, triggering a swimming ban for one hour.

For the second time this week, a beach off Martha’s Vineyard is closed to swimming due to a great white shark sighting. Edgartown Police confirmed that a shark was spotted at South Beach, and said officials have cleared the water and the beach is temporarily closed.

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 after shark sightings, authorities said. Newcomb Hollow Beach at the Wellfleet-Truro line was closed in the afternoon after Massachusetts State Police said in a tweet that a white shark was spotted by a helicopter “near the swimmers.”

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...

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.

A man boogie boarding off a Cape Cod beach was attacked by a shark on Saturday and died later at a hospital, becoming the state’s first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years. Arthur Medici, 26, of Revere, succumbed to his injuries following the attack in the waters off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet just after noon, Wellfleet Police...

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.

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

A group formed to look at ways to prevent shark related incidents on Cape Cod says swimmers and surfers ignored water closures in the days after a man was killed in a shark attack off Wellfleet.

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.