Posted on 06/21/2021 6:52:41 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
Cape lifeguards told people to get out of the water for the second straight day Sunday, as great white shark sightings start to pick up along the shore just in time for the official start of summer.
Cape Cod National Seashore lifeguards at Truro’s Head of the Meadow Beach blew their whistles late Sunday morning with the appearance of a shark offshore.
“A temporary no-swimming order has been issued by CCNS Lifeguards at Head of the Meadow beach,” the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app alert reads.
“Beach-only activities permitted,” the shark alert continues. “This order will expire after one hour from the last sighting.”
The same shark alert was issued at Truro’s Head of the Meadow Beach late Saturday morning.
Shark sightings and detections picked up this weekend, the first weekend after K-12 schools wrapped up for the year as families headed to the Cape for summer vacation.
Other shark sightings this weekend included an unconfirmed shark sighting at Eastham’s Nauset Light Beach, a 12-foot to 14-foot shark feeding on a seal carcass east of Monomoy Island in Chatham, a shark spotted 2.5 miles south of Monomoy along Stone Horse Shoal, and a 14-foot white shark seen by a spotter pilot off Plymouth in Cape Cod Bay.
A detection buoy off Chatham showed several sharks coming by in the last few days, including 10-footer Marley and 14-footer James — which is the most detected shark along the Cape in the last decade.
The temporary no-swimming orders at beaches is the new normal for summers at the Cape, as great white sharks prowl along the shore looking for seals and other prey to feast on.
Another sighting this weekend on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s app was described as a seal with a shark bite on Provincetown’s Race Point Beach.
Meanwhile, the OCEARCH shark tracker also shows great whites migrating to the Cape in recent weeks.
A nearly 11-foot shark named Andromache was detected this weekend near Nantucket, and a nearly 9-footer named Gladee was detected near Monomoy Island. Charlotte, an 8-footer tagged off North Carolina, was recently detected west of Martha’s Vineyard.
Also, a 10-footer named Rose is already up along the Maine coast.
She was tagged off Nova Scotia last year.
LOL, apparently, not predictable to some!
For them, it is always “unexpected”...:)
It's all about marketing. Jaws was a blockbuster in 1976 - sharks have that movie the thank.
They have better publicists.................
The Bear publicists make them out to be friendly and cuddly, people want them at their picnic tables and hand feed Yogi et all.
“Do you have a link to websites that track the Great White sharks on the New England coast?”
Try this one below. -Tom
https://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/sharktivity-app
your tagline-(Patriot living behind enemy lines on the coast of Maine.)
Because of last summers fatal attack in Maine, there will be at least 30 hydrophone receivers put out this summmer.
You should be getting all kinds of shark info when they check the “white shark “pings” on those hydrophones.-Tom
I used to go to Falmouth Heights, Nobska and Woods Hole all the time back in the 70’s.
I hope to be there again this year soon.
I try to go every couple of years.
I don’t remember seeing the sharks or seals.
If you get there, head toward P-Town and visit any of the oceanside beaches in Chatham-Orleans-Eastham-Wellfleet or Truro, and you will see all the shark warning signs and wary beach goers staying close to shore.
If you go to an oceanside beach in Wellfleet or Truro, you may see the lifeguards sounding the alarm to get out of the water as a shark is sighted, or has "pinged ' a real-time buoy at that beach.
That will be a Daily occurrence just about everyday all summer long. That is how much things have changed on the Cape in the last 10 years..-Tom
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