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Cape Cod shark report faulted for misleading data, costs
Cape Cod Times ^ | Sunday November 17, 2019 - 4:38:38 am | Doug FraserĀ»

Posted on 11/17/2019 10:28:23 AM PST by Capt. Tom

ORLEANS — On a sunny fall day, Kristian Sexton was sitting on Nauset Beach, hunched over a small hand-held monitor, his head buried in a sun shade. Offshore, feeding humpback whales were breaching, but closer to the beach, Sexton was tracking three great white sharks with a drone ….snip

“It’s definitely a promising technology, not a perfect (shark detection) technology, nothing is, but in the right conditions you can see very well,” he said. Sexton is critical of the assessment of shark mitigation technologies by the Woods Hole Group ...snip

In an email response to an interview request, Woods Hole Group spokesman Adam Finkle said his company and its clients would be addressing questions and comments after the end of the Dec. 16 public comment period...snip

“On a sandy bottom, I very easily spotted them. I could fly away, come back in a half hour and fly right back to where they’ll be,” said plane pilot George Breen, who was a shark spotter for state shark researcher Gregory Skomal for years and now finds sharks for charter vessels running great white shark tours. Every day I flew this summer, I saw them,” he said. ... snip

Spotter planes also routinely fly at 1,000 feet, not the 500-foot level in the Robbins study. “Height is your friend,” said spotter pilot Wayne Davis.

Tom here- more info in the article.

(Excerpt) Read more at capecodtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: capecod; drones; noaa; whitesharks; woodshole
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Shark season is pretty well over for Cape Cod, an this winter the towns will come up with mitigating solutions for next year, 2020,to avoid shark attacks on people in the ocean.

It is an unsolvable problem with both the seals and white sharks protected by the Federal Govt., a situation that will take years to change ,if even then it is done. Mitigation is what will be done now.

Myself I like the idea of high resolution cameras taken aloft by tethered balloons along the beaches, that send images to lifeguards showing where white sharks are located. Every suggestion has a downside but, it would be a start..- Tom

1 posted on 11/17/2019 10:28:23 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

I’m on the Cape, and hear about this often.

On the one hand, people are coming to see the sharks. But, on the other, they don’t actually want to see the sharks eat seals or swimmers.

It’s a balancing act. Influential players are the Chamber of Commerce and the save the sharks and seals (at the same time) naturalists.

I keep thinking the movie, “Jaws.”


2 posted on 11/17/2019 10:32:14 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Capt. Tom

Avoiding shark attacks is pretty simple - stay out of the water.


3 posted on 11/17/2019 10:40:10 AM PST by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: Capt. Tom

Have a shark buffet. No more sharks. No more tourists to get eaten. Problem solved.


4 posted on 11/17/2019 10:41:00 AM PST by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine; TMN78247; Makana; 1Old Pro; Roccus; Justa; Faith65; rlmorel; Red Badger; ...
It’s a balancing act. Influential players are the Chamber of Commerce and the save the sharks and seals (at the same time) naturalists.
I keep thinking the movie, “Jaws.”

When I think of some of the various groups affected by the sharks and seals; fishermen, business owners, bathers, surfers, tourists , biologists, property owners, seal haters shark haters, seal lovers, shark lovers, businesses that can make money on miigations, politicians, shark viewing boats etc.

You can see any public meetings to address the seal shark issue is going to be very contentious. - Tom

5 posted on 11/17/2019 10:47:36 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: dainbramaged

https://youtu.be/KshMtEi60Kc

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6 posted on 11/17/2019 10:47:39 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Capt. Tom

Cape Cod shark report, report, report,
Cape Cod shark report, report, report,
Cape Cod shark report, report, report,
Cape Cod shark!


7 posted on 11/17/2019 10:49:01 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Lurker

I’m guessing that was supposed to be the land shark from SNL, but it was a seven minute Subaru commercial. It could also be my museum quality desktop.


8 posted on 11/17/2019 11:33:43 AM PST by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

People, whales, sharks don’t care. The Good Lord didn’t give any real brains, just teeth. They’ll take a bite out of anything.


9 posted on 11/17/2019 1:43:24 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: chajin

Ah.. this is Cape Cod shark, what’s your 20? Over.


10 posted on 11/17/2019 1:45:31 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: jmacusa

QTH FL AR


11 posted on 11/17/2019 1:57:30 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Capt. Tom

Back in he 1960s we would take small sharks called dog fish that got on (bit onto) our lines. We would take them by the tail and brain them against the side of the ol ChrisCraft. Then throw them back in and most of the time they would swim away. They are so primitive I will bet their brain (such that it is) healed back to normal within weeks.


12 posted on 11/17/2019 2:07:21 PM PST by dennisw
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Cloudy, foggy weather is common on Cape Cod...

What happens if they miss seeing a shark and someone gets hurt or killed?

Will there be lawsuits?


13 posted on 11/17/2019 2:08:20 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: chajin

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14 posted on 11/17/2019 2:51:18 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: jmacusa

Sorry, morse code shorthand: QTH is where the person is, FL is where I is, AR means “back to you”


15 posted on 11/17/2019 3:13:46 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Capt. Tom

ImVho, as “your friendly neighborhood shark conservationist” a “PRETTY GOOD” solution (as opposed to looking for the “UNOBTAINIUM” PERFECT solution,) is:
1. CATCHING/TAGGING/RELEASING/TRACKING the man-eaters,
2. FENCING off the public swimming areas
AND
3. Allowing LICENSED/CAREFULLY MONITORED HUNTING of seals AND dangerous sharks.
(Inasmuch as “trophy” & “commercial” alligator/crocodile hunting is SUCCESSFULLY managed by PWD by several States, the same thing could be easily managed as well for seals/sharks.)

As for my lady & me, we would both buy another sealskin “ladies stroller” or a “men’s carcoat”, IF they were commonly available for sale in 2019-2020.

Yours, TMN78247


16 posted on 11/17/2019 3:27:31 PM PST by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Cloudy, foggy weather is common on Cape Cod...
What happens if they miss seeing a shark and someone gets hurt or killed?
Will there be lawsuits?

So far people have been hospitalized and one fatality because of shark attacks on Cape Cod, and no lawsuits.

I guess where voluntary risk is involved, you are on your own. - Tom

17 posted on 11/17/2019 3:37:05 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom; Alas Babylon!

I’m “pretty sure” that before too long that some shyster WILL sue some city//county/state/person for a person being attacked by a shark, inasmuch as I know of a case where a homeowner sued his own wife (The plaintiff was ACTUALLY sueing their homeowner’s insurance company.) for the family dog “wrongfully & routinely waking me up before 5AM”. = You can sue ANYBODY for ANY cause, real or imagined.
(WINNING the case is a different kettle of fish.)

Yours, TMN78247


18 posted on 11/17/2019 4:09:09 PM PST by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: Capt. Tom; Alas Babylon!

I’m “pretty sure” that before too long that some shyster WILL sue some city//county/state/person for a person getting attacked by a shark, inasmuch as I know of a case where a homeowner sued his own wifen (The plaintiff was ACTUALLY sueing their homeowner’s insurance company.) for the family dog “wrongfully & routinely waking me up”. = You can sue ANYBODY for ANYTHING, real or imagined.
(WINNING the case is a different kettle of fish.)


19 posted on 11/17/2019 4:09:32 PM PST by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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I’m “pretty sure” that before too long that some shyster WILL sue some city//county/state/person for a person being attacked by a shark,

Locally I have seen my town remove all the shark warning signs in October when they no longer had life guards at the beach.

If a surfer or bather got attacked by a shark I could see a lawsuit based on "since the signs were removed I thought it was "safe" to go in the water. - Tom

20 posted on 11/17/2019 4:27:14 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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