Posted on 06/12/2021 2:31:44 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
This beach season, every week is Shark Week.
Professional shark taggers warn there are at least four great whites lurking off Long Island and New Jersey en route to Cape Cod – with a 600-pounder named Rose and a monster 16-foot, 3,456-pounder called Mary Lee right behind them.
“Right now the sharks are loading up on dog fish, seals and blubber over the summer,” said Chris Fischer, the founder of the Ocearch research foundation.
Osearch has tagged 70 sharks, but they represent a tiny portion of the maneaters out there. “There are thousands of them on the East Coast right now,” The numbers will peak in late summer near Cape Cod, and then they will turn around and migrate back to the Carolinas.
Andromache, a monster 11-foot great white, made a stop in local waters last month and was last detected summering off the coast of Cape Cod. Among the largest sharks Osearch has tagged is Nukumi, a colossal 17.2-foot female great white, who recently returned to Nova Scotia waters after a deep dive swim over the mid-Atlantic ridge.
Fischer stressed shark attacks are “infrequent,” but he nevertheless he urged common sense in the water, especially for surfers.
“It doesn’t make sense to dress up like a seal and go out in the middle of the food chain,” Fischer said.
Avoid shark feeding grounds by looking for seals or groups of birds diving into the water to feed off shark leftovers.
“The moment you’re 3 feet in the ocean, you’re in the wild, and you’ve taken a risk,” he continued. “It’s the same thing as wandering off into the woods without protection or unprepared during bear season — you might get yourself killed.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Just another article to get you cranked up on the coming white shark season.
This afternoon I met a friend who has a summer house up in Harpswell, Maine, where last year a fatal shark attack occurred. He told me about the attack.
The sharks are here in New England now; and we can get ready for a busy white shark news season with all the people and biologists now involved. -Tom
Great White = racist. Shoot them all.
Summer of 2001, into early September 2001, the two big news stories were shark attacks, and did Gary Condit kill Chandra Levy.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-09-06-0109060200-story.html
Just another article to get you cranked up on the coming white shark season.-Tom
This fear porn bought to you by climate change and white supremacists, the sources of all bad.
I am waiting for FauXi to show up on the Beaches of the Cap Cod National Seashore...
Catch them and lets eat some shark steaks.
How about the diver in 45 ft of water, yesterday, in the NE who was eaten by a whale, who 30 sec later, surfaced and spat him out.
The seals came back, the sharks followed. Whoda thunk it?
I heard they don’t eat liberals. So democrats should be OK. Karen, it’s safe for you to go way out there in the water.
OK now, that's a pretty big shark. It's the size of a Boston Whaler.
Sharks? In the ocean?! OHMIGAWD!
Joe swam back ??:?
Lurking..... Very funny term for describing a creature that suffocates and dies if it stops “Lurking”.
Were gonna need a bigger boat...
Summer fear porn to keep away the Walmart smelling riff raff from the mainland.
Thanks for the ping Capt. Tom. Although I live hundreds of miles from the ocean, I enjoy the articles.
In the fwiw Captain, we had two great whites off the Gulf coast last week. 82o Lat, 29o Lon. Approximately. They had names for those,...
Plus all the hammerheads, nurse, black amd ...senior moment.
Gazillions.
5.56mm
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