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Eleven great white sharks spotted prowling around US coast in just one day

THERE have been 11 great white shark sightings off the Cape Cod coast in just one day, with even more sharks detected.

In the spirit of Shark Week, the Massachusetts coast has seen quite a few great white shark sightings just this week alone.

11 great white sharks were spotted off Cape Cod coast this Tuesday
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11 great white sharks were spotted off Cape Cod coast this TuesdayCredit: Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
10 other sharks were detected by buoys, making the total number of sharks off the coast increase to 22 on Tuesday
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10 other sharks were detected by buoys, making the total number of sharks off the coast increase to 22 on TuesdayCredit: Getty Images - Getty

On Tuesday, the Sharktivity app recorded 11 shark sightings and 10 more sharks were detected.

The first shark sighting of the day happened around 9.42am. The shark was swimming a couple hundred yards out from the south inlet of Chatham harbor in Massachusetts.

Not even an hour later, at 10.22am, another shark was spotted 100 yards from the inlet.

A little south of the Chatham harbor inlets, an 11-foot great white shark was spotted 34 minutes after the previous sighting, at 10.56am.

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About 100 feet off the Cape Cod shore, north of Newcomb Hollow, two different great white sharks were spotted at 12.52pm, one from a spotter boat and one from a research boat.

Another shark was spotted around 1.03pm, only 75 yards off the North Beach Island coast in Chatham. The shark was just south of the north inlet, moving north.

Around 1.26pm, two white sharks were spotted by a pilot flying 100 yards off the North Beach Island shore.

Another sighting occurred at 1.35pm off the north inlet of Chatham harbor. This shark appeared to be a great white shark as well.

Shockingly, bystanders witnessed another shark sighting along the Cape Cod coast at 2pm.

Another 10 sharks were spotted between four detection buoys on Tuesday, according to .

Even more shark sightings occurred the next day off the coast.

Swimmer, Steve Bruemmer, was one of the lucky ones this year who survived a shark attack.

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He needed 28 units of blood in a two-hour operation to save his life.

To learn the best way to survive a shark attack, click here.

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