I caught a few waves and was paddling back out and I was moving to stand up when I got knocked off my board, said 69-year-old Cleveland Cleve Bigelow It felt like getting hit by a truck while on a bicycle. It was a shock. I thought, What was that?
Bigelow, of Chatham, said he saw the bite marks on his board, got back on, and paddled in to shore as quickly as possible, alerting lifeguards and a nearby surf school.
He said he never saw the shark, and was not injured directly by it, but he did hurt his lower legs when he hit the board after the shark bit into it.
A defense attorney argued last week that race and mental health played a role in the case of a Massachusetts man charged with the shooting of two Falmouth police officers in July 2018.
Cahoon Hollow Beach and The Beachcomber restaurant in Wellfleet were closed after a sand dune collapsed By Mike Manzoni •
Updated on August 5, 2018 at 8:24 pm
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A sand dune collapsed on Saturday, temporarily shutting down Cahoon Hollow Beach and the popular Beachcomber restaurant.
This is the second sand dune collapse on the beach in less than a year.
The collapse on the Wellfleet beach happened after storms battered the Cape Cod town over the weekend.
A sand dune collapse shut down Cahoon Hollow Beach and closed a popular restaurant Saturday night in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
The collapse, the second one on the beach in less than a year, happened after storms battered the Cape Cod town over the weekend.