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'Shark Alert!' Great white sighting in Truro temporarily closes beach

Great white shark spotted off Cape Cod beach
Great white shark spotted off Cape Cod beach 00:19

TRURO - It's that time of year again in Massachusetts - a great white shark sighting Tuesday temporarily closed a Cape Cod beach for swimming.

"SHARK ALERT!!" state shark biologist John Chisholm tweeted just after 1 p.m. "Shark sighted at Head of the Meadow Beach, Truro."

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy's "Sharktivity" app reported that the confirmed sighting closed swimming at the beach from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

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