Man Bitten by Shark Off Cape Cod, Suffers ‘Deep Puncture Wounds'
The harbormaster said the victim, a 61-year-old male, suffered puncture wounds to his torso and leg
By Marc Fortier ••
A shark attacked a man off the coast of Long Nook Beach in Truro, Massachusetts.
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Police said a person was bitten by a shark at Long Nook Beach in Truro, Massachusetts on Wednesday afternoon.
The victim, a 61-year-old male, suffered "deep puncture wounds" to his torso and leg.
There have been numerous shark sightings off Cape Cod in recent weeks, including several close calls involving fishermen.
A man suffered "deep puncture wounds" when he was bitten by a shark while standing in the water just 30 yards off shore of a Cape Cod beach on Wednesday afternoon.
NBC10 Boston’s Sky Ranger was over a great white shark off Long Nook Beach in Cape Cod on Wednesday, showing how close the shark was to the beach. The footage was recorded less than two hours after a man was bitten by a shark in the same area. It has not been determined if this is the same shark that...
The victim was bitten near Long Nook Beach in Truro, according to police. The Truro harbormaster said the victim, a 61-year-old man, suffered puncture wounds to his torso and leg. He was transported to Wellfleet and then taken by medical helicopter to Tufts Medical Center in Boston. His condition was not immediately known.
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The victim of a shark attack off Long Nook Beach in Truro, Massachusetts is carried by people up the dunes.
Medical personnel gathers at Marconi Beach in Cape Cod awaiting the arrival of the shark-attack victim to be Medflighted to a hospital.
Medical personnel gathers at Marconi Beach in Cape Cod awaiting the arrival of the shark-attack victim to be Medflighted to a hospital.
Medical personnel gathers at Marconi Beach in Cape Cod awaiting the arrival of the shark-attack victim to be Medflighted to a hospital.
A shark-attack victim arrives by ambulance at Marconi Beach in Cape Cod and is transported to a Medflight to be flown to a hospital.
A shark attack victim is transferred from an ambulance to a Medflight at Marconi Beach in Cape Cod.
Long Nook Beach in Cape Cod, where a man was attacked by a white shark.
A white shark just off Long Nook Beach in Truro, Massachusetts, where a man was attacked by a shark hours earlier.
A white shark just off Long Nook Beach in Truro, Massachusetts, where a man was attacked by a shark hours earlier.
A white shark just off Long Nook Beach in Truro, Massachusetts, where a man was attacked by a shark hours earlier.
This shows how close a white shark is to the beach in Truro, Massachusetts.
Long Nook Beach in Cape Cod, where a man was attacked by a white shark.
Long Nook Beach in Cape Cod, where a man was attacked by a white shark.
Long Nook Beach in Cape Cod, where a man was attacked by a white shark.
The incident was reported at 4:15 p.m., 300 yards south of Long Nook Beach. It is not known yet what type of shark bit the man.
NBC10 Boston Sky Ranger over the scene of a shark-attack victim being transported from the ambulance to a Medflight helicopter in Cape Cod.
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Sandy was detected off Chatham.
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Here's a photo of Turbo, a great white shark detected off Wellfleet last weekend.
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Omar was also detected off Chatham recently.
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A person on board a whale watching boat on June 9 captured this image of a shark killing a seal off Provincetown.
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This is one of three white sharks spotted by pilot Wayne Davis on Friday's research trip.
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Jack is another return visitor to the Cape, and was most recently spotted on June 21.
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James has been spotted in previous years and was seen again on June 26 off Cape Cod.
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This great white shark was spotted by the Massachusetts shark research team on June 26, 2018.
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This white shark, James, was spotted on June 26 by a Massachusetts shark research team.
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This 10 to 12 foot great white shark was spotted by an intern aboard a Boston Harbor Cruises trip returning from a whale watch east of Cape Ann.
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This great white shark was tagged off Cape Cod on July 9.
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
This white shark was tagged off Nauset Beach on July 13.
Sharktivity
This six-to-eight-foot white shark was spotted off Scorton Ledge in Sandwich on July 15.
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
This great white shark was tagged off Provincetown on July 20.
Sharktivity
This white shark was spotted on July 28, killing a seal.
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This shark was caught in a fishing net off Minot Beach on July 28.
The Associated Press
This white shark was unintentionally caught in a gillnet and brought to Scituate on July 28.
NBC Bay Area/Rick Boone
This white shark was spotted north of Nauset Beach on July 30.
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This 10-to-12 foot shark was spotted on July 30.
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This white shark was spotted off of the edge of Billingsgate Shoal on July 31.
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This white shark was spotted swimming by surfers off Lecount Hollow Beach on August 2.
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This great white shark breached the waters off Cape Cod on August 6.
Long Nook Beach has been closed to swimming until further notice, according to the town's website, but some swimmers can still be seen in the water.
No further details on the attack were immediately available. U.S. National Park Service rangers are investigating.
A customer on a charter boat with Aquarius Sport Fishing in Barnstable Harbor lured in a much bigger catch than expected on Sunday.
There have been a number of close encounters in recent weeks, with sharks leaping out of the water after fishing lines and one even jumping at a shark scientist who was on a research boat.
There have been 10 great white shark sightings in the past week, and more than 60 over the last month off Cape Cod, according to the Sharktivity app.
A shark decided to go after a striper at the end of a line cast out from the Stone Horse Shoals.
"I caught a few waves and was paddling back out and I was moving to stand up when I got knocked off my board," 69-year-old Cleveland "Cleve" Bigelow said at the time. "It felt like getting hit by a truck while on a bicycle. It was a shock. I thought, 'What was that?'" He was not bitten and was able to paddle to shore.
In September 2014, two kayakers were knocked out of their boats by a great white shark off Manomet Point in Plymouth.
Two years before that, in 2012, a 50-year-old man was bodysurfing with his son off Ballston Beach in Truro when he was bitten by an eight to nine foot shark. He suffered nerve and tendon damage, but otherwise fully recovered.
Prior to that, the last shark attack on a human off Cape Cod was in July of 1996, when a 46-year-old man was bitten while collecting starfish in North Truro.
