Towns deploy tagged-shark alert system (Massachusetts)

Wicked local Cape Cod ^ | August 9, 2019 | Ryan Fitzgerald

[Capt. Tom]

When you have an unsolvable problem , mitigation is the only solution, and this is one example.

The cost of the Clever buoys to also detect untagged sharks and give an immediate alarm, is $60,000 plus maintenance fees for each one purchased.
Because the Clever buoys are not a proven success in California and Australia, where they are being tried, the towns have to wait for more information.
The fall off in tourism because of a new tax on Cape rentals, and the fatal shark attack last year, and the many beaches being close daily this year because of sharks attacking seals close to the beaches , and being seen swimming close to shore, have the Cape Towns in a bind.

We are coming up to crunch time from right now well into October. -Tom

[Larry Lucido]

uses email to alert officials and lifeguards to the presence of a tagged white shark

[left that other site]

Welcome!

Seals sunning themselves on Cape Cod

To The Cape Cod Great White Delicatessen!

[jmacusa]

Here off The Jersey Shore about two years ago we had a female Great White Shark that was tagged and given the name “Mary’’. What a doll she was. 16 foot and pregnant when she first showed up. Seems she liked to range as far north as Cap Cod, then she’d swim around off Long Island and then come back to The Jersey Shore. She even had her own Facebook page. I don’t know where she is these days though.

[minnesota_bound]

Found one!!!

[Capt. Tom]

uses email to alert officials and lifeguards to the presence of a tagged white shark

The theory is the people on the beach like life guards get the alert and warn the bathers.

I am afraid there would be so many warnings people would be reluctant to go to some Cape beaches, to go swimming, or do other water activities. Tom

[Flick Lives]

An acoustic receiver, attached to a buoy, that uses email to alert officials and lifeguards to the presence of a tagged white shark

Candygram!

[DoodleBob]

I have a better alert system.

[left that other site]

YIKES!

[DoodleBob]

I just saw this pic....it's too good to ignore.

[Vaquero]

[HighSierra5]

I have a rule. Never go swimming where the fish are bigger than me.

[A strike]

It wil be great not to be bitten/eaten by a tagged shark.

(btw, who tags them?)

[bgill]

We’ve seen countless pictures of swimmers unaware of sharks swimming around them. Tagged or not, I’m staying out of sharks kitchens.

[DoodleBob]

In all candor, all the times I've been to the Cape and Islands and Jersey Shore recently have not involved any time in the water beyond getting my feet wet. True, I'm not a young guy anymore, the kids are older, and I personally find the views, the sounds, and the food more than adequate for my vacation, more so nowadays.

But truthfully, over the years, going to the beach to swim has become a circus. While I don't doubt the sharks are repelling swimmers and tourism in the Cape, I have to imagine that the general uncouth demeanor of vacationers is also driving the generally weaker numbers over the long haul.

[left that other site]

The Ultimate Selfie! LOL!

[SuperLuminal]

Sounds like a trial run for the demoncrats gun registration plan post 2020...

[dljordan]

Kind of like gun control.

[Capt. Tom]

We’ve seen countless pictures of swimmers unaware of sharks swimming around them. Tagged or not, I’m staying out of sharks kitchens.

You won't see those sharks when you, are at water level.

I used to watch them come down the slick to the boat from the tower, and the people on the back deck would not be aware of them until they were at boat side.

When the white shark tagging boat gets into 6 feet or less of water alongside the beach, the beachgoers can be heard saying ,"why is that boat so close to shore, what are they doing", and there is a good sized white shark just ahead of the boat and the beachgoers can't see it.

You need elevation to see the sharks, unless they break the surface. -Tom

[Capt. Tom]

(btw, who tags them?)

The tagging is done by State Mass. Div. Fisheries Dr. Greg Skomal.
The money for the boat, spotter plane, and other costs is provided by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, along with some research grants, and donations. -Tom