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.
A lot of the beach goers now are looking for ..fins..as they are fearful of sharks and there are plenty of white sharks and seals around now during the summer season.
A line in the article that caught my attention was" and a 14-foot white shark seen by a spotter pilot off Plymouth in Cape Cod Bay."
That is on my side of the Cape and although not unusual, it means the local Mass. Bay Beaches will step up their shark warnings.
The arrival time of these Federally and State protected sharks has been very predictable.-Tom
Great white sharks are now racist....
Great Oppressor Sharks!
Shark Drone Footage At Shark Bite Capital Of The World, New Smyrna Beach, FL. Shark Aerial View:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzjNHBxd3aY
Thousands of sharks migrating north off Florida’s coast March 7,2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuLwxpu7zFo
Drone captures hundreds of sharks off Florida coast, Destin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFcnfbKSXXM
It’s DINNERTIME!.......................
I’d say off Nantucket, Sankaty Head Lighthouse, but the colors are reversed.
Shark Drone Footage At Shark Bite Capital Of The World, New Smyrna Beach, FL. Shark Aerial View:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzjNHBxd3aY
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Many years ago I met a person who lived in New Smyrna beach and asked him why the shark bites had fallen off.
He told me a hurricane had caused a 4 foot drop to the beach and there was little swimming activity that summer.
Now the beach is back to normal and the bathers are getting more than their fair share of world record shark bites. -Tom
About forty years ago enviormentalists and animal lovers put an end to the harvesting of baby seals off the coast of New england. Gory photographs of burly white men clubbing baby seals into a bloody pulp convinced the public this hunt was “very wrong”. The result was that the seal population in the area increased dramatically. The sharks took notice and the swimmers around Martha’s Vineyard have company.
The media——”How can we distract citizens from Biden’s massive failures and spiraling out of control economy”?
The media-—”Shark attacks-—run with that again”.
Hurricanes are next.
I once read that there are more bites and deaths by bears than sharks in the world, but sharks get the better media coverage........................
There have always been Great Whites in and around the North Atlantic coast... But with the abolition of full scale seal hunts in Canada, the Harp seal population has ballooned to over 7.4+ million seals and their numbers continue to grow with each passing year... When there was a yearly hunt, the population of these seals was about 1 million or so.
So you’re a Great White shark and you’re hungry... Where are you going to go when it’s supper time? You’re going to go to where the supper is.
Simple solution. Fire up the grill.
Tom,
Do you have a link to websites that track the Great White sharks on the New England coast?
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