Huge great white sharks lurking off the New York, NJ and Cape Cod coasts

New York Post ^ | June 12, 2021 | Paula Froelich

[Capt. Tom]

This beach season, every week is Shark Week.

Professional shark taggers warn there are at least four great whites lurking off Long Island and New Jersey en route to Cape Cod – with a 600-pounder named Rose and a monster 16-foot, 3,456-pounder called Mary Lee right behind them.

“Right now the sharks are loading up on dog fish, seals and blubber over the summer,” said Chris Fischer, the founder of the Ocearch research foundation.

Osearch has tagged 70 sharks, but they represent a tiny portion of the maneaters out there. “There are thousands of them on the East Coast right now,” The numbers will peak in late summer near Cape Cod, and then they will turn around and migrate back to the Carolinas.

Andromache, a monster 11-foot great white, made a stop in local waters last month and was last detected summering off the coast of Cape Cod. Among the largest sharks Osearch has tagged is Nukumi, a colossal 17.2-foot female great white, who recently returned to Nova Scotia waters after a deep dive swim over the mid-Atlantic ridge.

Fischer stressed shark attacks are “infrequent,” but he nevertheless he urged common sense in the water, especially for surfers.

“It doesn’t make sense to dress up like a seal and go out in the middle of the food chain,” Fischer said.

Avoid shark feeding grounds by looking for seals or groups of birds diving into the water to feed off shark leftovers.

“The moment you’re 3 feet in the ocean, you’re in the wild, and you’ve taken a risk,” he continued. “It’s the same thing as wandering off into the woods without protection or unprepared during bear season — you might get yourself killed.”

[Capt. Tom]

Who writes this crap? A 3456 lb. great white would be a lot longer than 16ft. Notice they somehow have the exact weight “3456”;

At first I thought somehow that platform they lower had a platform type of a scale that could get the weight of the fish that are slid onto the platform.
I could not find ay evidence of that, so I assume they are using a formula to estimate the weight.

If the fish is dead it can be hauled up on a crane scale and weighed accurately. That is not the case with these live sharks.

They probably used a formula based on the dimensions of the fish.-Tom

[Cvengr]

Well he was in the whale’s gullet for about 30 seconds in pitch darkness, unable to get out. Maybe he was just a Humpback’s gargle.

[Red Badger]

They are ‘shopping’......................

[TexasGator]

“Well he was in the whale’s gullet ...”

Nope.

[dfwgator]

Lawyers are safe....Professional Courtesy.

[Capt. Tom]

“The sharks are here in New England now; and we can get ready for a busy white shark news season with all the people and biologists now involved. -Tom”
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Below is an example of what I wrote above. -Tom

https://www.turnto10.com/news/local/great-white-shark-tagged-in-rhode-island-waters-for-first-time

[MarMema]

Thanks for posting! Very interesting.