a close encounter<\/a> off the coast of Harpswell last week.<\/p>\n\u201cShe made a few passes,\u201d Skerry said. \u201cOne, she got within four feet of me, and as she was approaching, that’s when I was able to do a series of frames. She was just below the surface, and I was trying to frame it to see the surface, and that’s the picture we went with at National Geographic, but there was no aggression, she was not threatening. Stayed around 2-3 minutes and then she was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two separate viewers say they saw a shark, about 12 feet long, in the same area: off Bailey Island this week.<\/p>\n
Shark warning flags are up at beaches in the area.<\/p>\n
You can find Skerry’s image on NatGeo.com<\/a> and check out SharkFest on Disney+ and Hulu. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND (WGME) — The shark sightings in Maine keep coming in. One of the most compelling images captured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[17756,11340,11345,10482,17755,79,8207,17757,3102,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-19199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-beaches","9":"tag-brian-skerry","10":"tag-harpswell","11":"tag-maine","12":"tag-national-geographic","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-shark","15":"tag-sharkfest","16":"tag-sightings","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19199","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=19199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}