Posted on 01/15/2020 8:31:31 AM PST by Capt. Tom
Could a South Carolina great white shark help the Highway Patrol solve a crime? Hilton Head Island’s great white shark whisperer is giving it his best shot.
Chip Michalove, a famous fisherman who has hooked and released 27 great white sharks off the coast of Hilton Head Island, caught a gigantic 2,800-pound, 15-foot great white shark on Wednesday. SNIP...
After reeling in the big girl, Michalove and his crew placed a tag on the great white shark so scientists at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries can track her movements in the Atlantic. SNIP...
Then he gave the shark a name — Grace. Grace is named after Grace Sulak, a Bluffton teen who was killed in a hit-and-run accident on eastbound I-26 near the 134-mile marker in May 2016. She was 14 years old .SNIP...
“There’s more than one person who knows (who did this),” Michalove said. A body shop, a friend, a neighbor. It’s a white Dodge Ram on I-26. I have a feeling they weren’t traveling from 500 miles.” Anyone with information on the fatal accident, call the Highway Patrol at 843-953-6010. SNIP...
Michalove said his crew stayed close to shore on Wednesday because of the rough seas. Typically, the crew ventures several miles off shore to a secret spot where Michalove hooked a 3,500-pound great white he called a “submarine with a tail,” along with several others. This time, they were less than a mile from the shores of Hilton Head Island on Michalove’s 26-foot boat when they encountered the great white monster.SNIP…
He’s estimated there are around 1,000 great whites off the South Carolina coast every winter. Because great whites only are here in the winter time, South Carolina hasn’t had any great white shark attacks on record. SNIP...
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No white sharks yet...LOL
I myself caught a young, 8 ft, 260# Great White 3 mi. off NSB. The full body mount is hanging in Hull’s Seafood restaurant in Ormand Beach.
I personally know of many more including one that was probably 2000# plus. I saw just the head of that one on a pallet that had to be lifted by a fork lift into a walk in cooler.
They seem to like the cooler offshore water in the winter months.
The way the protected white shark species is growing you can expect an inshore visitor any year now, at the beach, in NSB.-Tom
My GUESS is SOONER rather than LATER, after we had a pair of GW off of the south TX coast, for a few (EXCITING to us Texicans) days
Yours, TMN78247
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