{"id":78678,"date":"2025-08-13T02:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78678\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T02:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:59:07","slug":"officials-warn-beachgoers-of-possible-great-white-shark-sighting-off-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78678\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials warn beachgoers of possible great white shark sighting off Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCARBOROUGH, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Scarborough officials are informing beachgoers about a potential great white shark sighting near the southern tip of Richmond Island, Crescent Beach State Park, Higgins Beach, and Pine Point Beach.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Scarborough\u2019s Marine Resource Officer received a report of what appeared to be a large shark near Richmond Island and Scarborough Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say they received drone video on Tuesday of a possible great white shark, estimated to be 10\u201312 feet in length, that was spotted off the southern end of Richmond Island in the vicinity of Higgins Beach and Scarborough Beach.<\/p>\n<p>A shark was also spotted near Pine Point Beach on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough officials say this notice is being shared for public situational awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCARBOROUGH, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Scarborough officials are informing beachgoers about a potential great white shark sighting near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[55463,55465,55468,11342,55466,55467,55464,55462,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-78678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-beachgoers","9":"tag-crescent-beach-state-park","10":"tag-drone-video","11":"tag-great-white-shark","12":"tag-higgins-beach","13":"tag-pine-point-beach","14":"tag-richmond-island","15":"tag-scarborough","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78678","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=78678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}