Posted on 08/18/2019 5:53:07 AM PDT by C19fan
During a recent morning surf at a town beach here, Andy Jacob spotted a dark shadow in the water just a few feet away. He assumed it was a gray seal because they are everywhere these days—until he got a better view. “As clear as day, it was a great white shark,” said the 40-year-old Wellfleet resident, who had been surfing around the same spot where a great white killed a boogie boarder last September. He said he warned others nearby and that a lifeguard temporarily ordered people out of the water, standard protocol after a sighting. “Any person could be attacked at any moment,” said Mr. Jacob, an artist and oyster farmer. It is peak shark season on Cape Cod, and this summer, the huge animals lurking just offshore are an inescapable presence to the people on dry land.
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The surge in great whites is caused by an increase in the seal population. Fishermen used to shoot seals because they were competing for the same catch. Now there are fewer food fish and more sharks.
First world problem.
I am amazed - stunned - that this hasn’t been blamed on global warming. (All bad things are caused by global warming. Teacher told me so.)
To do so, to blame global warming, would quickly lead to skeptics (deniers) pointing out the obvious. So STFU about the seals.
Sharktopus is coming to gitcha. Our only hope is Whalewolf.
Sharks ARE everywhere because we povide a hugh junk-food supply of junk-food for them. If there were no junk-food in the oceans the shark population would be reduced to a managable level where would not have to kill these wonderful animals because of overpoulation.
The only junk food I provide them is double processed, once through my digestive system, once through the local sewage treatment system.
Oh wait, are there sharks in Pyramid Lake?
Watched it yesterday. Bad, bad movie, right up there with Zapped. But it is funny in a bad way.
You’d probably need a front bumper winch on an F-250 4x4 to do the job right. I can’t see how a single person not anchored into a fighting chair on a boat has a chance against a near full grown GW Shark.
The ‘battle’ between Orca pods and loosely organized GW Sharks is, IMHO, a battle for hunting rights. I may have been going on since pre-history. We only know about it now as a result of satellite tagging of individual Great Whites and the resulting GPS mapping of the shark population. It seems that the sharks tend to arrive first at any given seal rookery, hunt for a few weeks until a migrating band or Orcas push them off. As far as we know the Orcas target a single White, kill it, and the rest of the Whites just exit the area over a couple of days. The shark is not eaten except for the liver. The carcas is left to decay. It’s like a mob hit.
Tallguy thanks for the awesome summary of whats going on. That is so cool. The whales only eat the liver - I myself only eat the fin but to each their own
This is happening every day at several Cape Cod beaches now. More so the ones in Orleans and Wellfleet.
Whites are being spotted also on the Bay side.(Plymouth/ Boston.)
The water is darker and deeper near shore and they are harder to spot than on the Ocean side of the Cape, unless they break the surface. -Tom
When I was in the Coast Guard we must have killed a hundred sharks for entertainment. We didn’t have women on board back then.
They definitely need to change or totally eliminate the monster they created with sea mammal protection. Don’t need no Inuits to fix the mess they created to feel good about themselves, else let the sharks chow down on the lot.
Sharks (or demonicrats) could eat the entire cape, Martha’s Vineyard, And Nantucket and I would not shed a tear.
Your post is inspiring me to apply for a government research grant to see if a human can get kuru from eating a shark that ate an infected human.
Hire me and MAKE CAPE COD SAFE AGAIN!
No fava beans? No Chianti?
Someone told me yesterday orcas will kill GW’s just to eat out their livers.
“Your the mayor of Shark City! Now sign this so Quint can kill the shark(s).”
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