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State Offers Cash To Deal With Shark Attacks on Cape Cod – But Only After They Occur

State Offers Cash To Deal With Shark Attacks on Cape Cod – But Only After They Occur

State officials are allocating $383,000 to provide emergency call boxes, satellite phones, and all-terrain vehicles to help victims of shark attacks on the Outer Cape – but nothing so far to prevent them. Six Outer Cape towns are getting the money, including Truro and Wellfleet, where major shark attacks took place last summer. On August 15, a 61-year-old man in the water off Truro was seriously injured by a great white shark, sustaining wounds to his hip and torso that required extensive hospi

State officials are allocating $383,000 to provide emergency call boxes, satellite phones, and all-terrain vehicles to help victims of shark attacks on the Outer Cape – but nothing so far to prevent them. Six Outer Cape towns are getting the money, including Truro and Wellfleet, where major shark attacks took place last summer. On August 15, a 61-year-old man in the water off Truro was seriously injured by a great white shark, sustaining wounds to his hip and torso that required extensive hospi…