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BY MIKE OLIVA

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Chris Myers was attacked on Monday by what experts believe was a Great White Shark at Ballston Beach in Truro, Mass. on Cape Cod, the first such attack in over 75 years.

Myers was taken in stable condition to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, and then later transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital where he is expected to recover.

It was around 3:30 p.m. when Myers was swimming with his son J.J. about 500 yards off the coast, searching for a sand bar in deep water.

It was then that Myers was pulled underwater by a shark with a single crushing bite in both legs.

"I heard him scream and turned around, and saw the back and the fin of the shark up out of water," J.J. explained to ABC news, well after the attack. "At that point it hit me when it was happening. But at the same time, I thought that none if it was real. It really seemed like a movie. None of it seemed real until I was on the beach."

"It will take some gentle effort to get back in the water, but I hope one day," Chris Myers said on Good Morning America today, from the Boston hospital where he is recovering.

Gregory Skomal, biologist with the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game’s Division of Marine Fisheries, identified the attack at Ballston Beach in Truro to be a great white attack due to unambiguous circumstances.

Eyewitness accounts of a large fin, the presence of seals in the area, and aftermath of the man’s injuries likely make it a great white shark that attacked Myers, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Despite daily shark sightings in the  Cape Cod area, reports Examiner.com, the last shark attack in Massachusetts took place in 1936.

Earlier in July, it was reported that two great white sharks were sighted near the beaches of Chatham, Mass. On the "hook" of Cape Cod, Chatham is located on the south end while Ballston Beach is located at the north end.