Posted on 08/04/2019 5:13:33 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
"How about setting up asylum/detention camps and deportation camps all along the Cape Cod beaches... Then instruct the illegal aliens that, to get their food and medicines, they must take 2-3 baths per day...
Eventually all the sharks die from indigestion..."
What FASCINATES me is the lunatics like “Margie” P_________, who dressed up in a black wetsuit, mask & fins in 2016 & went out to swim with the seals in Northern CA, “- - - - so that they would accept me as just another seal”.
NOT too surprisingly, an about 10 foot White had a bite of the “funny looking seal”, to check out her suitability as “supper”. - I understand that she now has a really large & impressive looking scar as a souvenir of her “Pacific adventure”.
Here in Texas, we refer to such loons as “sexual pecans”.
Yours, TMN78247
*Eat me and I will poison you or hit you with a deadly barb and we both die.
Black & white stripes? Hey look, a zebra fell overboard.
The ocean has great whites, the Rockies have grizzlies if you don’t want to deal with that stay outa the water and woods. Or be smart about how you do either. The world has meat eaters, we are meat. It goes with the territory.
It is fascinating to read what is happening on Cape Cod since Arthur Medici died. Like the movie Jaws brought to life...tourism vs safety.
The property owners on Cape Cod are concerned because if the tourism fades, the towns will raise property taxes.
Most of the incidents with white sharks and people occur from August thru September.
Us humans have an irrational fear of sharks and that makes mitigating the problem more difficult.
In a way it is like some of the scenes from Jaws. -Tom
Great White Sharks are big, stupid animals that will hurt and kill people.
How many Great White Sharks have won Nobel Prizes?
How many Great White Sharks have been noted for their charitable contributions?
No Sharks.....no problem.
I hope fellow Freepers that are interested, will read it.
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2019/05/14/cape-cod-sharks/
I thought so too. I wanted to share it with you. So like a real life of Jaws!! Could hardly believe it.
I have a neighbor on Cape Cod who works for on the larger and more popular resort hotels. Her manager told her that they were averaging an occupancy rate of 30% for what should be their busiest season.
It certainly was not the weather in July.
Meanwhile Maine is having a banner tourist summer.
At the Shark Panel last week, I found out the shark hydrophone buoys from Scituate- Marshfield-Duxbury to Plymouth are scheduled to be pulled August 8.
So any pings from "TAGGED" white sharks can be determined.
A lot of people don't realize these buoys are for shark research, and not to protect or warn beachgoers of a shark in the immediate area.
The buoys are pulled about once a month, and only record acoustically tagged sharks and the date and time of the pings, and can't record untagged sharks that greatly outnumber the tagged sharks.
Some groups claim to have invented real time buoys that will immediately alert people to a tagged and untagged shark presence- for a substantial fee of course .
Sixty thousand dollars for the buoy and more money for the placement and maintenance.
The verdict is still out on their usefulness in Australia and California. -Tom
WELLFLEET – Shark detection technology on Cape Cod made advancements off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet last week, ….such as an acoustic receiver attached to a buoy that can not only detect signals from tagged great white sharks but relay an instantaneous alert to lifeguards and beach administrators.
One such device was deployed off Newcomb Hollow recently and next week two more will be placed offshore at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro and at Nauset Beach in Orleans.
…………..Since 2009, a total of 171 sharks have been tagged with acoustic devices that broadcast a unique identifying signal that is picked up by a necklace of receivers attached to buoys off Cape beaches.
Only in this case, the data is forwarded as quickly as possible via a cellphone signal to whoever you want notified.” Water clarity and other factors affecting underwater sound transmission, such as wave noise and vessel traffic, may alter the distance at which the receivers can detect shark signals, but Skomal estimates a shark passing within 330 to 660 feet of the buoy would be picked up.
Even though the following book was written primarily about the New Jersey shark attacks it has info on the early 1900s and man's gravitation to the ocean,
Twelve Days of Terror by Richard G. Fernicola, M.D. is a fantastic book on the fatal 1916 New Jersey shark attacks. It has great insight into the attacks, and the people and attitudes of that time period. -Tom
Fwiw, SEAL SKIN coats/jackets were not for ladies only “back in the day”. = I once had what was called a “Gentleman’s Stroller”, in the WWI era-the 1920s, of seal in the 1970-1980s.
(VERY warm, on FRIGID Winter days in Northern VA.)
When the fur got won enough from “Sunday wear” & started showing its age, I started wearing it with jeans/boots.
I lost it to a pick-up burglar, who broke out the back window on my locked truck to get it. = The VASP looked & looked for somebody wearing a sealskin stroller W/O success.
(I think that I was the only man in Alexandria that had a seal coat. At least I never saw another one in town.)
Yours, TMN78247
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