Posted on 08/10/2019 1:16:26 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
WELLFLEET -- An acoustic receiver, attached to a buoy, that uses email to alert officials and lifeguards to the presence of a tagged white shark is in place in the waters off Wellfleet’s Newcomb Hollow Beach and will soon be installed off Nauset Beach in Orleans and Head of the Meadow in Truro, according to shark researcher and scientist Greg Skomal, of the state Division of Marine Fisheries. The device can detect a tagged shark if it swims within 100 to 200 meters of the buoy, he said, but issues no alert when non-tagged sharks, population unknown, swim by, meaning that its safety implications are limited.(snip)
The citizen group Cape Cod Ocean Community had pushed for a Clever Buoy shark detection pilot program this summer, but none of the towns wanted to move forward with it. The Clever Buoy has the ability to identify any shark, tagged or not, that swims within its range, the manufacturer says.(snip).
Meanwhile, the Outer Cape towns and the Seashore are expecting the consultant Woods Hole Research Group to file its white shark mitigation report in mid-September. The WHG is looking at a wide range of deterrent options the towns might consider for future use.
(Excerpt) Read more at capecod.wickedlocal.com ...
LIFEGUARD: "Dang...is the POP server still functioning, or did we go to SMTP? Call support!
"Hello! This is Manesh! How may I help you today?" (audible screams in the background)...I hear American bathers in distress! Are you okay? I can connect you to the 9/11 Assistance center in Bangalore which covers for the Chatham Beach area in Massachusetts USA. Would you like me to do that for you?"
Heh, I don’t know why...this whole subject just tickles my funny bone!
Special Award to the Alex Kitner Early Warning System idea!!!!!
Since these buoys are so expensive, I would expect they would also incorporate a flashing warning beacon atop the buoy which immediately signals a shark is in range of the buoy.
These buoys should be close enough to the beach so the beacon can be seen by swimmers, beachgoers and lifeguards. - Tom
Thanks, next question: how much is his life insurance ?
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Sigh. When I was a young teen, I used to swim in tropical water 20-30 feet deep a hundred yards offshore in the Philippines.
I could never do it now. Too much psychological water over the dam!!!!
Your post absolutely made me laugh aloud...that is one of my favorite movies. Posts like that are one of the major reasons I pay money to be a member here on FR!
Kudos to you!
I saw Jaws back in 1975 when it came out, and stood in line all around three walls of a theater at Shopper's World in Framingham, MA. When the shark came out of the water in one scene looking out over the stern, I jerked my hand back and hit the person in the seat next to me!
After the movie, we went to a lake, and 5 or 10 of us swam across a small lake to pull the plugs out of a kid's boat on the other side as a prank.
The moon was high, and it shimmered off the water...just like in the movie! I was as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs! I kept saying to myself "It's a lake. There are no sharks in here. It's a lake."
My best friend suddenly began thrashing around and said in a high voice "Something bit me!" I hissed at him to shut up because he was bugging me out! Apparently, some small fish had nibbled at his toe, as fish are sometimes wont to do...:)
A few nights later, we were swimming at night in my parent's pool, and I felt nervous even then!
A few years later, we went to see Jaws at the Drive-In in Natick, MA with two cars and about ten of us, and I had gone up to use the head and was walking back to the car watching the movie as I walked. Quint was being dragged off into the water with blood coming out of his mouth, then swirling water and silence. There wasn't a sound in that entire Drive-In. Except one.
After Quint disappeared, all was silent except for one voice calling out loudly and clearly: "Quint? Quint?
Heh, it was one of the guys in my group who was the guy who always had everyone in stitches...:)
A few years after that when we were commuting into college together, he told me about a dream he had. (We were both living at home while we attended a nearby State College.)
Suddenly, I heard it: BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM...
It started off fairly faintly, but was growing louder! I just knew there was a giant man-eating Great White Shark in that underground parking lot! I panicked, and ran as fast as I could to that little window with light coming in, but as I grabbed the bars, I realized I couldn't get out!
BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM...
In panic, I screamed at the top of my lungs "HEEEEEEELLLLLP! HELP! HELLLLLLP!
At that point, I woke up standing on my bed, my face stuffed into the little small cellar window of my bedroom facing our neighbor's house. It was about five o'clock in the morning, and their bedroom light came on!"
So when he finishes telling me this, he looks at me and says "When I heard that music, I just KNEW there was a giant shark after me in that underground parking lot!"
Whenever we get together these days, this is one of the stories about him we still tell!
On a more serious note, the tale of the USS Indianapolis became intertwined with Jaws in our popular culture because of the effective way they had Quint tell his story.
I had known about the story of the USS Indianapolis, but the movie compelled me to read everything I could find on it. Then, I had the opportunity to spend time professionally with one of the senior surviving officers, and we talked about various things and then that subject popped up when we began discussing our military service. It was remarkable to meet him and speak with him, and it was emotional. One of the most memorable encounters in my life.
That’s OK. = You ought to see if there’s some way to redirect the resident Whites to beaches that are frequented by The Antifas, assorted leftist radicals, DIMocRATS & other mostly worthless creatures.
I admire the Whites & keep hoping that the pair of females someday comes back to visit the Texas Coast. = The business community hopes so, too, as they made a TON of $$$$$$$ off of shark watchers in 2017. - You had to wait for HOURS to get a table at THE WHARF, when “the big girls came to visit” & THE BAKERY CAFE in Port Aransas “declared itself” as the OFFICIAL SHARK-WATCHER’S HQ.
(THE ISLAND TIMES-MESSENGER even gave them names. = JUDY & SHADOW.).
Our water is just TOO WARM for Whites to come/stay for long. = The seawater at Padre Island right now is about like bathwater.
(That’s why Makos are SCARCE until you are out way past the rigs.= Like maybe 100 miles from dry land.)
Yours, TMN78247
That’s OK. = You ought to see if there’s some way to redirect the resident Whites to beaches that are frequented by The Antifas, assorted leftist radicals, DIMocRATS & other mostly worthless creatures.
I admire the Whites & keep hoping that the pair of females someday comes back to visit the Texas Coast. = The business community hopes so, too, as they made a TON of $$$$$$$ off of shark watchers in 2017. - You had to wait for HOURS to get a table at THE WHARF, when “the big girls came to visit” & THE BAKERY CAFE in Port Aransas “declared itself” as the OFFICIAL SHARK-WATCHER’S HQ.
(THE ISLAND TIMES-MESSENGER even gave them names. = JUDY & SHADOW.).
Our water is just TOO WARM for Whites to come/stay for long. = The seawater at Padre Island right now is about like bathwater.
(That’s why Makos are SCARCE until you are out way past the rigs.= Like maybe 100 miles from dry land.)
Yours, TMN78247
Forget “to file its white shark mitigation report”
Just file the shark’s teeth!
There is no doubt we have an irrational built in fear of sharks.
I used to row out to my boat at dawn with my son who used to put his hand in the water and used it like a rudder.
After he saw "JAWS" he sat dead center in the rowboat with his hands folded on his lap, and always looking around for a shark fin.- Tom
Our water here in Mass. is too cold for most people to stay in it for a long period of time.
I visited the beach locally at Humarock, this AM ,and it was packed ,with about 5% or less of the people in the water. - Tom
That said, just because I don't wish to swim with them and pet them and I don't want to give them the opportunity to mistake me for a tasty seal and then spit me out minus a limb or two when they discover I'm only a rancid-tasting human...I admire them greatly as a force of nature!
What happens if an individual white shark thinks you taste as good as a seal, or even better.
You know some of us like liverwurst but most people don't. - Tom
UNDERSTOOD. = The same was TRUE when our TX part of the family used to visit our “left coast family” OR/WA in the Summer. = To me at least, the seawater (and the WIND when you got out of the sea) “way up there” was FAR too cold to enter & remain in for more than a couple of minutes.
(Of course I have VERY low blood pressure naturally & am “chilly” at <70 degrees F. = My air conditioned cottage is kept at about 75 degrees Winter & Summer & unless it’s really humid, without a breeze, I’m quite happy at 85 degrees outside..)
Yours, TMN78247
An “exploratory bite” is the MAIN REASON that a goodly percentage of “shark attack victims” survive a “close encounter of the 3rd kind” with a White shark, provided that they receive QUICK/effective medical care before they “bleed out”.
OF COURSE if you weigh 300# & have a LOT of tasty FAT, YOU may just be a PERFECT meal for a White.
Yours, TMN78247
SHARK 2: You know, they are easy to catch and don't put up much of a struggle, but...ugh. They are too squishy for me. If only they had more body to them, more "seal like", I would partake. As it is, you might as well pour their fatty asses into a glass and drink them.
SHARK 1: Yeah. I hear ya.
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