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WELLFLEET – Great white sharks don’t hang up their fins when lifeguards clock out for the day. Now a group devoted to safe ocean recreation says new — and inexpensive — technology could provide an added layer of protection for swimmers and surfers during unguarded hours. Cape Cod Ocean Community set up a demonstration of the warning system that uses flashing red and white lights and an audible alarm Thursday morning at Le-Count Hollow Beach. The warning system mounted on private property on a dune above the beach is designed by Moosh Systems to go off whenever it receives phone...

Cape Cod, Mass. — What would seem to be the collegial world of local shark research has in fact become a simmering feud between competing factions, with some saying the public is the loser because the research is not keeping up with great white's growing incursions on our local waters. "We've never been shut out like this," said Chris Fischer, founder of OCEARCH, the research group that has been denied permits by the state for several years now. "What's happening here with sharks compared to the rest of the world is like it is in the dark ages." OCEARCH roams...