{"id":812818,"date":"2026-08-14T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812818\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:34:09","slug":"shark-swims-just-feet-from-shore-in-machiasport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812818\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark swims just feet from shore in Machiasport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As summer starts to wind down, shark sightings have ramped up over the last week or so.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a lifeguard in Scarborough reported a close encounter with a white shark, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/Wells Beach closed to swimming after white shark sighting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wells Beach was closed Wednesday<\/a> because of a shark sighting.<\/p>\n<p>Now, another shark has been caught on camera in Machiasport.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Finlay posted video from Gray Beach after a friend who was clamming along the beach spotted the shark, pulled out his phone and started recording.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the shark swimming alongside their boat and coming within just a few feet of shore.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are reminding everyone to be aware of their surroundings and keep an eye out for posted warnings about shark sightings near beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As summer starts to wind down, shark sightings have ramped up over the last week or so. Earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-812818","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\/812818","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=812818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}