{"id":724414,"date":"2026-08-02T12:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724414\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:51:15","slug":"beach-closed-after-large-shark-spotted-in-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724414\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach closed after large shark spotted in Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       1 Aug 2026, 19:03 Updated: 18h ago         <\/p>\n<p> 1 Aug 2026, 19:03  | Updated: 18h ago <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"St Ouen's Bay in Jersey\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"832274\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/832274.webp\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    The shark was sighted near St Ouen&#8217;s Bay in Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-st-ouens-474576736.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">A beach in Jersey has been closed after a large shark was sighted swimming around in the Channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Local reports said the dark grey shark, roughly 10-12ft in length, was seen off St Ouen&#8217;s Bay just before 11am on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The animal reportedly entered the bay from the west and then headed south, about 40m from the edge of the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">So far, it is not clear what type of shark it was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Following the worrying sighting, a red flag was raised, and people were not allowed in the water for an hour across the whole bay until an inspection took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Following checks, the bay re-opened roughly an hour later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands, sitting between England and France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 Aug 2026, 19:03 Updated: 18h ago 1 Aug 2026, 19:03 | Updated: 18h ago The shark was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-724414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}