{"id":90445,"date":"2025-08-17T22:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90445\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:01:12","slug":"maine-police-release-video-of-possible-great-white-shark-lurking-near-popular-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90445\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Police Release Video of Possible Great White Shark Lurking Near Popular Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

A drone video<\/a> has captured what may be a 12-foot Great White Shark near popular beaches in Maine.<\/p>\n

The Scarborough, ME, police department wrote in an Aug. 12 press release <\/a>that it wanted to \u201cinform the public of a potential shark sighting in local waters, specifically in the area off the south tip of Richmond Island, Crescent Beach State park, Higgins Beach and Pine Point Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police department followed that post by releasing drone footage.<\/p>\n

What Appears to Be a Great White Shark Can Be Seen in the Drone Video Shared by Scarborough Police<\/p>\n

Police wrote that they were releasing the notice \u201cfor public situational awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, Scarborough\u2019s Marine Resource officer \u201creceived a report of what appeared to be a large shark near Richmond Island and Scarborough Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFollow-up observations were conducted and on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, the Marine Resource Officer obtained drone video footage showing a possible Great White Shark, estimated to be 10-12 feet in length, off the southern end of Richmond Island in the vicinity of Higgins beach and Scarborough Beach,” police wrote.<\/p>\n

Police wrote that they were sharing the information \u201cpromptly to keep the community informed. As additional details become available, we will provide updates.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Aug. 12, police shared the drone video.<\/p>\n

“Please see the attached drone footage taken on Monday, August 11, 2025, at approximately 10:00 a.m. Photo credit goes to David Lancaster, who captured the footage from his watercraft,” they wrote.<\/p>\n

“The shark was spotted again this morning in the area off Pine Point Beach. No photo or video has been obtained yet from this second sighting,” police noted.<\/p>\n

A man wrote in the police comment thread on Facebook, “Yes was fishing by Higgins and can confirm there was a massive shark jumping out the water and feeding.”<\/p>\n

“We saw the same thing on Scarborough Beach!” a woman responded.<\/p>\n

“Saw the same at Scarborough Beach,” another person wrote.<\/p>\n

Related: Dawn Brancheau: Real Story of Trainer Killed by Orca Killer Whale<\/a><\/p>\n

Maine Police Release Video of Possible Great White Shark Lurking Near Popular Beaches<\/a> first appeared on Men’s Journal on Aug 13, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drone video has captured what may be a 12-foot Great White Shark near popular beaches in Maine.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[55465,61713,55468,11342,55466,55467,22214,55464,61712,79,61714,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-90445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-crescent-beach-state-park","9":"tag-drone-footage","10":"tag-drone-video","11":"tag-great-white-shark","12":"tag-higgins-beach","13":"tag-pine-point-beach","14":"tag-police-department","15":"tag-richmond-island","16":"tag-scarborough-beach","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-shark-sighting","19":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90445","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=90445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}