July 28th, 2012

Nantucket adopts shark sighting policy after false report

Nantucket adopts shark sighting policy after false report

28. July 2012 Nantucket selectmen have endorsed a new beach policy after a supposed shark sighting July 18 at Fisherman’s Beach turned out to be a false alarm. The shark scare briefly closed three popular south shore beaches to swimming, but the sighting was actually an ocean sunfish, or mola mola, John Chisholm, of the