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.”
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Come on down to the Lake of the Ozarks.
No sharks here...
Maybe we’ll get lucky and one will get 44.
Where are you? Grew up in NE Oklahoma and spent a lot of time in NW Arkansas and SW Missouri.
Great whites, big effing deal. Over-grown guppies, I wear a mask so I can swim with ten pounds of raw liver and have no fear. The shark may even sense I identify as “vaccinated”.
Camden County
Privileged MFers!...
Quint was awesome.
fight great white shark privilege. black shark lives matter.
I know! Let’s have a BLM protest. Drop them fifty yards offshore and I’m sure those huge pelagic carnivores will recognize their white guilt and slink away, shame-faced. Heck, I’ll pay the charter for five boats.
There was quite a scare one summer in 1916 in New Jersey...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/matawan-new-jersey-shark-attack-of-1916
Very racist headline. I guess there will be some trigger episodes.
Saw the story today. The diver survived, and he’ll have a “whale” of a story to tell for the rest of his life!
“who was eaten by a whale,”
He wasn’t eaten.
Hey surfs up. Come on all you surf dudes and bunnies, get off you ass and get out there and run those seals off. What are you surfer Sanders? Chicken.
I am looking for a 2018+ Montauk 150.
Its when they come ashore that things get interesting ...
A bull shark .
Who writes this crap? A 3456 lb. great white would be a lot longer than 16ft. Notice they somehow have the exact weight “3456”; are you sure it wasn’t “6789” or maybe “1234”?
There was quite a scare one summer in 1916 in New Jersey...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/matawan-new-jersey-shark-attack-of-1916
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Modern evidence says there was enough saltwater in Matawan creek at the places of the attacks’ to support a white shark.
Also the shark caught in Raritan Bay was identified in photos as a white shark.-Tom
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