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Detections, research continue for Cape Cod’s great white sharks
Cape Cod Times ^ | June 14, 2020 | Doug Fraser

Posted on 06/14/2020 7:15:42 PM PDT by Capt. Tom

Since he started tagging great whites 11 years ago, DMF shark researcher Gregory Skomal has gradually filled in gaps in buoy coverage and this summer will have 100 buoys, encircling the Cape and extending north to Cape Ann, most of them within a quarter-mile of the beach. Over 200 sharks already have been tagged. “The larger ones show up first and stay the longest,” Skomal said, as their body mass and ability to regulate their body temperature allows them to endure the cooler extremes of the seasons.

The season typically starts at the end of May, with detections focused on Monomoy off Chatham, with sharks moving north as the water warms in August and September

Even without the population study, there’s already enough evidence that Cape Cod has a lot of white sharks. Acoustic tags, fixed to the base of the shark’s dorsal fin using the detachable head of a harpoon, transmit a signal unique to each shark. These are picked up and recorded by receivers on those buoys moored within a quarter-mile of the Cape’s most popular beaches.

Buoy data from last summer and fall showed the top 10 receivers averaged 61 individual sharks and over 7,000 detections per receiver.

The Peaked Hill Bar receiver closest to shore off North Truro detected 70 individual tagged sharks and over 14,500 signals detected over an eight-month period, equaling 60 detections a day on average. Nauset Beach in Orleans had 69 sharks swim by its buoy, and Coast Guard Beach in Eastham had 62. .

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


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: capecod; massachusetts; sharks; whitesharks
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Well for those interested, the Cape Cod and Massachusetts Bay white shark season is about to begin.

The shark warning signs will be going up shortly at Mass. beaches, and the shark sightings and cell phone documentation will start.

Hopefully we will have no serious shark attacks this season of 2020. -Tom

1 posted on 06/14/2020 7:15:42 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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Not be a wise guy but I’m sure there’s lots of Great Whites off the waters of Cape Cod. ‘’Eh ah Martha, time we swim up ta the Cape. Pickins’ should be good’’


2 posted on 06/14/2020 7:24:05 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Capt. Tom; TMN78247; Makana; 1Old Pro; Roccus; Justa; Faith65; rlmorel; Red Badger; JPJones; ...

If you want on or off this ping list let me know. -Tom


3 posted on 06/14/2020 7:25:15 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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Not be a wise guy but I’m sure there’s lots of Great Whites off the waters of Cape Cod. ‘’Eh ah Martha, time we swim up ta the Cape. Pickins’ should be good’’

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-Of course, it’s where these sharks hunt that is concerning. Skomal said he and Winton have a paper under review that uses data from what are known as satellite pop-up tags and shows that great whites spend half their time while off Cape Cod in water shallower than 15 feet.

4 posted on 06/14/2020 7:30:45 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water!
5 posted on 06/14/2020 7:31:34 PM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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Robert Shaw was hammered for that scene.


6 posted on 06/14/2020 7:32:53 PM PDT by EEGator
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It’s never safe to do much of anything.

Even going to Walmart has risks.


7 posted on 06/14/2020 7:33:51 PM PDT by Paladin2
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And it wasn’t even in the book.

Which makes it a pretty marvelous bit of cinema.


8 posted on 06/14/2020 7:34:22 PM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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Actually, I feel safer swimming on the Cape than I do going to Walmart. LOL!


9 posted on 06/14/2020 7:35:18 PM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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Sure was. It was the second shot, the day after blacking out.

https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/robert-shaw-as-jaws-quint-8-facts/


10 posted on 06/14/2020 7:41:13 PM PDT by EEGator
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We went down to the Cape to try skiing on the dunes back in the day.

Sand friction is quite high.

It was fun, but a failure.

Didn’t get eaten by any sharks while we were in the water.

Flounder fishermen were hauling them in though.


11 posted on 06/14/2020 7:44:09 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Any way we can tag some of Obama’s sons in Atlanta , Baltimore, etc.?


12 posted on 06/14/2020 7:50:22 PM PDT by bort
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Skiing the dunes? Did you need to repaint your skis?


13 posted on 06/14/2020 7:54:52 PM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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We only took a “run” or two.

The bases didn’t even suffer from the extremely low speeds.

The beach was way better entertainment after the hiking.


14 posted on 06/14/2020 8:03:09 PM PDT by Paladin2
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They're off the beaches in NJ, Montauk Point, Long Island is a place they like to congregate too.
15 posted on 06/14/2020 8:31:09 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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My favorite is still 'Reggae Shark':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc0uxYB0fgc

(In the key of Awesome)

16 posted on 06/14/2020 10:16:21 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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“The larger ones show up first and stay the longest,” Skomal said,”

This idiot et al, advocates and gets paid to let man-eaters stalk beaches where people/kids go in the water.

A surfer was eaten alive two years ago, and none of these oceanographers have been brought up on charges.


17 posted on 06/15/2020 5:16:39 AM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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A GW was photographed here off the coast of Pensacola a month or so ago, by a diver.........................


18 posted on 06/15/2020 5:17:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Always trust God............but wash your hands......................)
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Have you ever had a shark attack? Was it mostly a rumor of a shark attack?


19 posted on 06/15/2020 5:24:37 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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Labeling a mostly grey shark as a “White” shark, isn't that racist?
20 posted on 06/15/2020 6:56:08 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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