{"id":13862,"date":"2025-07-16T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13862\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:40:05","slug":"white-shark-spotted-40-feet-off-cape-cod-beach-busy-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13862\/","title":{"rendered":"White shark spotted 40 feet off Cape Cod beach: &#8216;Busy afternoon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phones with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticwhiteshark.org\/sharktivity-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharktivity app<\/a> were buzzing on the regular for the first time this season on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shark alerts were coming in often during the afternoon, as people reported that they saw great white sharks off Chatham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite shark spotted 40 feet off North Beach Island (Chatham),\u201d reads the shark alert on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy\u2019s Sharktivity app.<\/p>\n<p>An apex predator was also seen 20 yards off North Beach Island, heading south.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a busy afternoon off of North Beach Chatham,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MA_Sharks\/status\/1945200329676517659\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted shark researcher John Chisholm<\/a>, an adjunct scientist with the New England Aquarium. \u201cBe #SharkSmart and download the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy #Sharktivity app to stay informed on\u2026 White Shark sightings and alerts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u203c\ufe0fSHARK ALERT\u203c\ufe0f <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a busy afternoon off of North Beach Chatham. Be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SharkSmart?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SharkSmart<\/a> and download the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sharktivity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Sharktivity<\/a> app to stay informed on the way you White Shark sightings and alerts. \ufffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KFx3mAx84i\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KFx3mAx84i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MA Sharks \ud83e\udd88 (@MA_Sharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MA_Sharks\/status\/1945200329676517659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chatham is a hotspot for great white sharks. The sharks hunt for seals in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Shark alerts are issued when a white shark sighting is confirmed close to a public beach. A notification goes out with each alert.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy\u2019s Sharktivity app was developed with input from the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, the Cape Cod National Seashore, and officials from Cape Cod and South Shore towns to raise awareness of the presence of white sharks.<\/p>\n<p>The app sightings are fed by researchers, safety officials, and users that upload photos for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy enabling App users to report shark sightings and upload photos for confirmation, we are effectively crowd-sourcing critical data points on where sharks are spotted so as to reduce encounters and promote safety,\u201d reads the Conservancy\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Data from sharks with acoustic tags and Smart Position and Temperature Tags (SPOT) are also available on the app.<\/p>\n<p>Public sightings submitted through Sharktivity are verified by the New England Aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phones with the Sharktivity app were buzzing on the regular for the first time this season on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[13373,13369,13368,13370,12604,79,8207,13372,13371,13374,13367,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-13862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-atlantic-white-shark-conservancy","9":"tag-cape-cod","10":"tag-cape-cod-beach","11":"tag-chatham","12":"tag-great-white-sharks","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-shark","15":"tag-shark-alert","16":"tag-shark-alerts","17":"tag-sharktivity","18":"tag-white-shark","19":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}