Nauset Beach

The U.S. Coast Guard and local harbormasters are searching for a plane that may have crashed off the coast of Cape Cod. The downed plane — a white and beige Piper 28 aircraft — was reported missing off Nauset Beach in Orleans, Massachusetts. A male pilot was on board, the Coast Guard said. The original call was made to the…

A Pennsylvania family vacationing on Cape Cod had a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Reigels spotted several sharks Saturday about a quarter mile off the coast of Nauset Beach in Eastham. “We said we wanted to see sharks and we actually saw about five, six great whites,” Lee Ann Reigel said. One shark even came up to the small boat, chartered with…

Two white sharks, also known as great white sharks, were seen off Nauset Beach on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Sharktivity App, temporarily closing the water for the second time in the day. Swimmers at the Cape Cod beach were ordered out of the water about 2 p.m., after the pair of sharks were sighted. They’ll be allowed back...

Town beaches in Plymouth, Massachusetts, have been temporarily closed to swimmers after a confirmed shark sighting. Swimming at Plymouth beaches will be suspended for three hours after the harbormaster received a report from a lobsterman who said he saw a nearly 9-foot long white shark at the surface alongside his boat.

A shark sighting Saturday afternoon temporarily closed a Cape Cod beach to swimming. Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro is closed to swimmers until 5 p.m. after a shark was spotted nearby its shoreline.

Two Cape Cod beaches were temporarily closed to swimmers Monday after separate shark sighting.

A Great White Shark has been spotted 15 yards off of Nauset Beach on Cape Cod, closing the beach to swimmers.

It was another busy weekend for shark sightings, with 15 great whites spotted off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday and Sunday combined. That’s the same number of sharks that were spotted the weekend before. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, seven great white sharks were spotted off Provincetown, one off Truro, two of Wellfleet, one off...

Two shark taggings and a shark breaching the water near the shore have prompted beach closures along Cape Cod on Monday. The tagged sharks, which became the 10th and 11th tagged of the season, were tagged about 100 yards from Nauset Beach in Orleans around 10:30 a.m. and then Nauset Spit just before noon.

A video caught on a drone shows a shark just within feet from a paddleboarder in Nauset Beach, off Cape Cod, in July.

A man survived a close encounter with a Great White Shark on Cape Cod over the weekend, without having realized he was in danger until after the fact.

Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro has been closed to swimmers after a great white shark sighting on Monday.

It’s a popular week at the beach, and not just for people. The warning flags are up, a sure sign that the sharks are out there and swimmers should take precautions.

The most recent shark sighting was around 12:30 p.m. Friday when a shark was seen near swimmers at Provincetown’s Race Point Beach. Researchers also spotted a great white off Nauset Beach in Orleans earlier Friday morning.

Two surfers from Brooklyn narrowly missed a shark attack in Cape Cod Monday.  A shark appeared and killed a seal not far from the shore in front of terrified beachgoers at Nauset Beach near Chatham, about two hours south of Boston.  The two surfers happened to be just feet away from the jaws of the shark. For a few...