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Boat passengers witness shark attack
Cape Cod Times ^ | June 28, 2008 | By K.C. MYERS

Posted on 06/28/2008 11:28:47 AM PDT by Capt. Tom

Boat passengers witness shark attack June 28, 2008 CHATHAM — Fourteen passengers on a seal watch boat saw a shark attack and kill a seal yesterday during a cruise to Monomoy Island.

The island, which is a national wildlife refuge, is home to hundreds of seals and also a favored feeding ground of several species of sharks.

Capt. Bob Littlefield is sure the shark he saw rip a seal in half yesterday afternoon was a great white.

"It was a quite a bloody mess," said Littlefield, who has been a captain on Cape Cod for 32 years.

Littlefield was steering a 42-foot, high-speed catamaran owned by Monomoy Island Excursions of Harwich Port on the ocean side of Monomoy, where hundreds of seals were sunning and swimming, when suddenly there was a commotion in the water.

Littlefield, who said he had always wanted to see a shark eat a seal, turned the boat toward the area, which quickly became red with blood. As the boat got closer, the shark went under, taking half of the gray seal with it. The tour captain estimated the seal to be 300 to 400 pounds, and the shark to be between 14 and 16 feet.

(Excerpt) Read more at capecodonline.com:80 ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: animalrights; attack; environment; goodshow; marinebiology; nature; reality; seal; shark
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To: snarks_when_bored

Like hot dogs and burgers, sometimes you use what you have...


21 posted on 06/28/2008 3:24:44 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: shekkian
The shark is really asking for a lawsuit.

Sounds like a hate crime.

22 posted on 06/28/2008 7:41:53 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Capt. Tom
This wasn't a shark attack.

This was a shark having lunch!

It's not like somebody was going to feed the thing a bowl of Purina Shark Chow.

23 posted on 06/28/2008 7:44:45 PM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: theDentist
Like hot dogs and burgers, sometimes you use what you have...

It's all chummy to me!

24 posted on 06/29/2008 12:01:30 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: Capt. Tom

“Littlefield, who said he had always wanted to see a shark eat a seal, turned the boat toward the area, which quickly became red with blood. As the boat got closer, the shark went under, taking half of the gray seal with it.”

If I were on a boat wanting to see seals and the captain intentionally took me to see one being eaten, I’d be mad as hell. That’s like looking for a puppy and winding up at certain Asian restaurants.


25 posted on 06/29/2008 8:12:15 AM PDT by BruceysMom ( My heart is in Baggs)
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To: BruceysMom
These local Mass. white shark sighting stories,usually end up being covered by the Boston written and TV Press.
That hasn't happened yet on this incident. When it does, I get a lot of e- mails and visits to my shark website, and calls from the press.

For the last few years I have been getting e- mails from people who swim in that area describing to me what appears to be shark predation on seals at the seal colony at Monomoy. A friend of mine who officially investigates these situations has had positive proof of white shark bites on seal carcases that have washed ashore.

Just like in Jaws, the local politicians want to ignore this developing situation. We now have life imitating art here.

"JAWS"--Mayor Vaughn:
"Martin, it's all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July."

26 posted on 06/29/2008 4:26:50 PM PDT by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
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To: Capt. Tom

Friends of my parents had a summer place in Chatham and sometimes when we visited we’d go out to Montomoy. The thing I remember most was how quickly the the water dropped off on the backside.


27 posted on 06/29/2008 4:32:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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