August 5, 2019 — With little fanfare, shark detection technology on Cape Cod took a small step forward last month off Newcomb Hollow Beach, the site of last year’s fatal shark attack on body boarder Arthur Medici.
Cape Cod and regional public safety officials have been hoping for years to employ a kind of souped-up version of what they already have, an acoustic receiver attached to a buoy that can not only detect signals from tagged great white sharks but relay an instantaneous alert to lifeguards and beach administrators.
One such device was deployed off Newcomb Hollow, state shark researcher Gregory Skomal said, and two more to be placed at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro and at Nauset Beach in Orleans.