Great White? Nope.

Cape Cod Life ^ | 30th Anniversary Collection Edition | Jeff Harder

[Capt. Tom]

When Captain John “J.C.” Burke phoned in a secondhand report of a great white shark swimming in an estuary on Naushon Island on September 21, 2004, Dr. Greg Skomal rolled his eyes. “Yeah, okay. Sure,” Skomal recalls saying dismissively to his friend. “Send me a photo.” Skomal, a senior biologist for the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and the state’s top shark expert, was understandably worn down from 17 years of supposed sightings of the creature. Save for a video of white sharks swimming near the bow of a boat off of Provincetown, he had only seen sporadic evidence to support the largely grandiose claims.

[Capt. Tom]

For those of you interested in sharks; here is a New England take. I am mentioned in the article , and gave an audio interview. http://assets.mediaspanonline.com/prod/2000932/Shark.mp3

[Gator113]

FYI, when I try to go to the source link, this is what I get: Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine. Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off". Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

[US_MilitaryRules]

A mistaken gummy?

[Gator113]

I was able to listen to your audio link.

[Capt. Tom]

When I click on the link I go to the article no problem. - Anyone else having a problem.- tom

[CollegeRepublican]

I can read it. Pretty cool.

I would figure that the variations in water temperature and lack of signficant marine mammal populations would keep the populations of whites down on the Northern right coast.

I do know that they are caught off the Delaware and Maryland shore every once in a while, probably chasing whales calving off the Delaware Bay.

[Gator113]

I’ll try it again later, but it’s still giving me the same results.... and I know it’s not my computer.

[Capt. Tom]

I would figure that the variations in water temperature and lack of signficant marine mammal populations would keep the populations of whites down on the Northern right coast.

New England has always been the normal range for the white shark. Their numbers have been down and that is why so few sightings are made.
In the last few years more seem to be showing up. They have been protected on the east coast since 1997, and that seems to be a help in their recovery.
There are plenty of seals around, especially off Chatham on Cape Cod.- Tom

[texas booster]

No problem hearing Capt Tom in Opera thru Quicktime.

No problem hearing Capt Tom in Firefox 3 thru Quicktime.

Your computer is fine, but your browser needs to have some work done to it.

How do you normally listen to MP3s?