Posted on 09/15/2018 3:16:51 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
WELLFLEET -- An unidentified man died Saturday after being bitten by a shark some 300 yards south of Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, town police confirmed. His name was being withheld until notification of next of kin; the Boston Globe identified him as a 26-year-old from Revere, and attributed that information to state police. The attack happened at about 12:30 p.m. Newcomb Hollow is a town-managed beach on property owned by Cape Cod National Seashore. “Around noontime [Saturday] a male swimmer at Newcomb Hollow Beach was bitten by what is believed to be a shark. The male victim [in his] mid 20s was pulled from the water, [and rescuers] provided emergency first aid to include CPR. The male victim was transported to Cape Cod Hospital by the Wellfleet Fire Department, where he passed from the injuries,” the Seashore said in a statement. A sign at Newcomb Hollow warns swimmers of the presence of sharks; this is the case at almost all back shore beaches.
It was the second shark attack on a swimmer off Cape waters this season: on Aug. 15 a New York man was bitten in the waters off Long Nook Beach in Truro. He survived but was seriously injured. State biologist and shark researcher Greg Skomal determined that the Truro shark was a great white, based on the victim’s bite marks. It isn’t known yet whether the Newcomb Hollow shark was a great white. The last fatal shark attack in the Commonwealth happened in 1936. The Cape Codder will have full coverage and local reaction in an upcoming report.
My favorite place to surf fish is Cape Lookout, NC. Access via 4x4 only. If you get a strong hit on the line after 4:00pm you can put money on it that it’s a shark.
The local park concessionaire has a tram car they pull behind a truck to haul tourists out there who promptly start swimming in the surf and beyond. Idiots.
“If time is of the essency, why didn’t they drive a vehicle to him????”
There’s big cliffs there, 4x4 wheeler might be able to get down the sand trail to the beach but not an ambulance.
And Cape Cod Hospital is at least an hour away from this beach, which is in the middle of nowhere.
“My favorite place to surf fish is Cape Lookout, NC”
I don’t know it, but it just sounds like a nice place.
“The local park concessionaire has a tram car they pull behind a truck to haul tourists out there who promptly start swimming in the surf and beyond. Idiots.”
Lol.
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