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Drone video shows great white shark lurking near popular beaches in Maine, prompting police warning
Drone video showing a large great white shark near some of Maine's most popular beaches has prompted police in one coastal town to issue a warning on Tuesday. The warning was issued just weeks after there were multiple great white sightings in an area of Maine where a woman was fatally attacked by a shark five years ago.
Massive great white shark spotted near popular beaches in Maine: See drone video
Officials in Scarborough informed 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" located along the Maine coast. All beaches are within a half-hour's drive of Portland.
The sighting of the shark, believed to be a great white, near busy southern Maine beaches prompted warnings from public ...
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (WGME) -- The state says there's more than one reason behind recent shark sightings off Maine’s coast, and ...
Victim Identified in Deadly Maine Shark Attack, State's First-Ever Fatal Incident Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63, was killed in the attack off Bailey Island in the Casco Bay town of Harpswell ...
Authorities in Maine said Tuesday the shark that killed a woman in a rare attack off the state’s coast was a great white. The shark bite killed Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63, of New York City, ...
According to the Maine Department of Marine Resources, the woman was spotted swimming off the shore of Bailey Island by a witness, who then saw the woman sustain an injury from a shark attack.
The only other attack in Maine documented by the University of Florida’s global database was in 2010, when a diver in Eastport fended off an aggressive porbeagle shark with a video camera.
More sharks are showing up in Maine's waters, and locals have concerns. But is this the new normal for the New England state?
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