{"id":735002,"date":"2026-06-30T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/735002\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:51:09","slug":"shark-warning-issued-after-great-white-spotted-off-harpswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/735002\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark warning issued after great white spotted off Harpswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARPSWELL, Maine (WGME) &#8212; A warning has been issued after a great white shark was spotted off the coast of Harpswell.<\/p>\n<p>Harpswell Marine Resources &amp; Harbor Management says a great white shark surfaced while a fisherman was setting his gear just a few hundred yards off Cedar Beach around 4 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Out of an abundance of caution, town staff have raised the \u201cshark flag\u201d at Cedar Beach in Harpswell to alert visitors about the possibility of sharks nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FILE - A juvenile Great White shark, about 3 meters long, swims beneath the surface waters, 15 miles off the coast of Harpswell, Maine, in 2025. (Brian Skerry for National Geographic)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/df711e28-f250-4b95-8676-eec23b328edd-NGS117405S25_250708_0053071ss100.5BrianSkerry.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE &#8211; A juvenile Great White shark, about 3 meters long, swims beneath the surface waters, 15 miles off the coast of Harpswell, Maine, in 2025. (Brian Skerry for National Geographic)<\/p>\n<p>Beachgoers are still able to access the water.<\/p>\n<p>The notification system is in place for people to make informed decisions only.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>About 6 years ago, Maine\u2019s first and only <a href=\"https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/one-year-later-changes-made-after-deadly-shark-attack-in-harpswell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deadly shark attack<\/a> occurred in that same area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARPSWELL, Maine (WGME) &#8212; A warning has been issued after a great white shark was spotted off the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-735002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735002","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=735002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}