A shark killed a seal Monday off the coast of Nauset Beach on Cape Cod, causing it to close.
"He's in good condition", Kathy Tevyaw, Interrim Superintendent at Cape Cod National Seashore, told WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Kendall Buhl.
A National Park Service ranger reported the water was murky in the area of the attack and speculated the shark didn't know what he was biting down on.
The man was about 30 feet from the shore when the shark bit into his paddleboard before swimming off.
The shark bite happened during high tide in calm seas, according to a statement from the Cape Cod National Seashore.
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The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy's Sharktivity app has logged at least 11 shark sightings off the Cape since Monday.
"'I was just, like, pulling my board, and people were yelling, 'Get out the water, get out the water!" one of the surfers, Nisi Schlanger, told NBC New York.
A beach on Cape Cod has reopened hours after a shark bit a paddleboard as a man was standing on it. "There's a lot more grey seals", said Reynolds.
The AWSC said killing white sharks to improve safety was tried in Western Australia without success, and the program was terminated after a review by the Australian Environmental Protection Authority, which found no evidence that culling sharks made beaches safer.
The beach in Orleans, Massachusetts, was closed after the incident. "I think he sustained some minor injuries, we're still waiting for more details on that". O'Brien, who frantically helped a young surfer out of the water, told the Herald's Owen Boss about why he backs a proposal to catch and kill sharks in the wake of the terrifying encounter. We will advise when people may swim again. "I thought it was a person".
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