Memorial for victim of shark attack will be installed at Wellfleet beach
Arthur Medici, 26, of Revere was boogie boarding off Newcomb Hollow Beach when he was attacked by a great white.
Officials in Wellfleet have approved the installation of a memorial honoring Arthur Medici, the 26-year-old from Revere who was killed in a shark attack off Newcomb Hollow Beach in 2018.
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The Cape Cod Times reports the Town Select Board voted to approve the installation of a memorial bench at Newcomb Hollow Beach last week. Funds to purchase the bench were raised by the Cape Cod Ocean Community, a nonprofit organization formed in the aftermath of the 2018 fatal attack to raise awareness and funds to support shark safety measures.
Heather Doyle, a founder of the group, told town officials the bench will have a plaque with Medici’s name on it and information about his life, according to the newspaper.
“He’s a part of Wellfleet now; that’s the bottom line,” she said. “I know there are many people who wish we’d stop talking about it and pretend it never happened, and I don’t think that’s fair to a human soul and his family.”
Medici’s death on Sept. 15, 2018, was the first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts since 1936 and followed a month after a New York man survived being bitten by a great white off a Truro beach.
Maine saw its first recorded fatal shark attack this year when a New York woman was killed in July while swimming off Bailey Island in Harpswell.
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