Authorities cleared the beach at Kama'ole Beach Park No. 1 on Maui at about 6 p.m. yesterday after a shark was sighted close to shore.

Officers estimated the shark was about the same size as a hammerhead sighted yesterday morning at Keawakapu Beach. Kama'ole is about 1 1/2 miles north of Keawakapu. Keawakapu had been closed for several hours after a shark was sighted there. A lifeguard at Keawakapu had confirmed that there was an 8-foot hammerhead shark "cruising" about 10 to 15 feet offshore.