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Numerous shark sightings reported off Cape Cod in recent days
WCVB Ch.5 Boston ^ | Jul 29, 2020 | staff

Posted on 07/29/2020 1:15:56 PM PDT by Capt. Tom

ORLEANS, Mass. — Numerous great white sharks have been spotted this week off the Massachusetts coast, often causing beaches to close as a precaution.

A shark sighting was reported at Nauset Beach in Orleans around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to a message relayed by the Sharktivity app from the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. The water was closed to swimming for an hour as a precaution.

Another sighting was reported in the same area Tuesday after a shark attacked a seal about 20 yards off the beach. Additional sightings were reported Monday and Tuesday near Chatham.

Additionally, a possible sighting was reported Wednesday near White Horse Beach in Plymouth. The public beach was closed while the harbormaster investigated.

Skomal was also involved in positively identifying the animal that killed a woman in Maine earlier this week was a great white shark.


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The white shark season is well underway here in Mass. and other coastal New England states.

From here on, according to past statistics, white shark sightings will increase here on a daily basis thru OCTOBER.

As more people at the beaches get shark phobia they will spend more time looking out at the Ocean and spotting more fins.

Commercial net fishermen who accidentally catch a white, will think twice about the legal requirement to report the white shark catch. Dialing that number to report inadvertently taking a white shark is like dialing; 1-800 -SHUT ME DOWN.

As I get more recent white shark info ,I will post it here, and you are welcome to join me. - Tom

1 posted on 07/29/2020 1:15:56 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

Attacks on video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NS2H55dxI


2 posted on 07/29/2020 1:17:37 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Capt. Tom
Aw, Geez, not this sh** again!


3 posted on 07/29/2020 1:18:04 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Capt. Tom

Great Whites!!

Why isn’t Antifa/BLM out there in the waters demonstrating?


4 posted on 07/29/2020 1:19:11 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Capt. Tom

I haven’t paid much attention - has this been a slow storm/hurricane season so far?
I have a feeling I recall a season some years ago where there hadn’t been any real hurricane action, and shark sightings were more numerous.


5 posted on 07/29/2020 1:20:47 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Heh.They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y’know, it’s... kinda like ol’ squares in a battle like, uh, you see in a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he’d start poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’, and sometimes the shark’d go away... sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y’know the thing about a shark, he’s got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they... rip you to pieces.”


6 posted on 07/29/2020 1:21:44 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Capt. Tom


7 posted on 07/29/2020 1:22:53 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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To: EEGator

“I’ll never wear a life jacket again, Chief.”


8 posted on 07/29/2020 1:23:27 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Capt. Tom; TMN78247; Makana; 1Old Pro; Roccus; Justa; Faith65; rlmorel; Red Badger; JPJones; ...
Additionally, a possible sighting was reported Wednesday near White Horse Beach in Plymouth. The public beach was closed while the harbormaster investigated.

@Plymouth_Harbor crew investigating a white shark sighting at White Horse beach were able to catch this amazing video!! This is a confirmed tuna in about 11’ of water just off White Horse Beach. Beach is still closed for the earlier confirmed shark sighting.

9 posted on 07/29/2020 1:24:25 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom
Bad time to be wearing my new seal costume.


10 posted on 07/29/2020 1:24:28 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Capt. Tom

11 posted on 07/29/2020 1:24:43 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Capt. Tom

Tuna link?


12 posted on 07/29/2020 1:25:25 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: billorites

Gumby of the Deep


13 posted on 07/29/2020 1:26:27 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Capt. Tom

I’ll comment on this briefly

having spent a lot of time in my life body surfing

If you were going to put on some kind of wetsuit use only flesh colored or light artificial colors ! not black!!!!

The sharks training is to look for black thing rolling around in water. A seal

They will only attack what they think is a seal. They don’t want us at all !

Again their training is for dark shiny moving

If they take a bite of us. We taste like shit to them. They will move on

Problem is that bite can kill you or close to. Easily

Ok So I don’t wear wetsuits. I hate them and will deal with cold water CA

I like warm better. We’re in cape May NJ in two days and it’s 80 !!!


14 posted on 07/29/2020 1:30:20 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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To: Truthoverpower

Also I forgot to say - I feel terrible for this woman ! and her family !

my condolences


15 posted on 07/29/2020 1:31:29 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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To: Capt. Tom

Wife was at Smuggler’s Beach yesterday, practicing White Shark distancing.


16 posted on 07/29/2020 1:32:13 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Tuna link?

Take this link copy and paste it in and see if it works. -Tom

https://twitter.com/Plymouth_Harbor

17 posted on 07/29/2020 1:33:51 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom

Nice fish!


18 posted on 07/29/2020 1:37:30 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Sorry, Charlie. But here’s the video link -
https://twitter.com/Plymouth_Harbor/status/1288516908657119234


19 posted on 07/29/2020 1:38:00 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Truthoverpower

Do you know the way to Cape May?


20 posted on 07/29/2020 1:38:37 PM PDT by EEGator
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