Posted on 07/23/2019 11:43:28 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
We love shark week!
. Great White: “Look at all those Massachusetts Democrats and Liberals in the water...YUM, YUM” 🤣🤣
Years ago I met a person from New Smyrna Beach and comment to him I wondered why the shark attacks were down on that beach.
He told me the big Hurricane had devastated the beach and not many people were using it.
Since then I gather it has been repaired and the sharks attacks are back to normal, making it the shark attack capital of the world. -Tom
Wasn’t it “Here lies the body of Mary Maginnty. Died at the age of a hundred and twenty, for 13 years she kept her virginity. Not a bad record in this vicinity”?
(sniffle) I love that movie!
Peach
That’s pretty much the whole town isn’t it?
Circa 1977 I skin dived in the Gulf of Oman twice a week on the reef. It was most great. I knew full well there were big sharks there. I never saw them but did see the smaller sharks.
The small risks were of little importance when compared with the beauty of the reef. Yes I did realize that I could be dinner for a large shark but the odds were very small of this happening. I loved the reef.
The Whites stay in cold water. Only come in to grab seals that are near deep water. Tiger sharks are the ones to worry about. They’re there and they’ll come in much shallower and warmer than the whites. A lot of the attacks up there are blamed on Whites when they’re more likely Tigers. You can see the Tigers from the air in August. They swim just beyond the breakers on the surf beaches.
We have not had any tigers caught or brought in on the north side of Cape Cod.
On the south side a few tigers have been caught.
Tigers are rare in Massachusetts. -Tom
Water is pretty cold for tigers, makos and whites I can see and bull sharks from what I’ve read.
Thanks for the intel. In Nantucket in 70s and 80s the Tigers were thick on the south side beaches. Not on the east which is deeper and colder or the north which is sheltered. Was on a chartered flight to look at the the oil spilling from the Argo Merchant the summer after it went down. Lots of large tigers beyond the breakers. The pilot said they were up to 14’. We did see a large, dead white, belly-up about 25 miles off Nantucket to the SE, off Tom Nevers.
Haven’t been up there for years. My brother says the seals and sharks ruined the surf fishing off the ocean sides of the island. Eh, I used to take my skiff out in the sound. Madaket to Great Point was my fishing area. Blues and Stripers was it. In FL it’s a lot more fish to work but so many different ways to get them. Harder imo. Up there I only had to know two fish. Best regards.
The Tigers usually arrive on the south beaches in mid-August.
We have a shark species called the porbeagle, Lamna nasus, which is here year round.
The porbeagle is shaped like a white and mako and can withstand the coldest of water.
The largest can weigh over 600 lbs.
In Nov and Dec whites usually migrate to other southern areas.
Whites can take cold water into the 40s and every few years there is one in our area in mid winter.
-Tom
Nowadays a beach goer can take a good drone with a remote HD camera on it and fly up and down offshore looking for sharks.
In fact, why aren’t lifeguards doing this, if they’re not already?
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