Cape Cod is Now the Shark Attack Capital of the World
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Mysterious Universe ^
| July 26, 2021 | Paul Seaburn
It turns out novelist Peter Benchley, director Steven Spielberg and the “Jaws” book and movie were right – you don’t want to go swimming off the coast of Massachusetts. According to the latest reports, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is now considered to be the shark capital of the world as the U.S. has
overtaken Australia for the dubious ‘country with the most shark attacks’ honor. Forget the “We’re #1” chants and the boat – we’re gonna need a bigger warning sign. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity App (you knew there was an app for this) shows 50 great whites off...
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Vast majority’ of Covid-19 cluster in Cape Cod were vaccinated
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Freewest Media ^
According to the Boston Globe, “at least 35 Covid-19 cases in Boston residents have been traced back to Provincetown” and the newspaper reported that the overwhelming majority of those had been fully vaccinated. A
fully vaccinated Boston resident who had fallen ill while in Provincetown recently, told the Globe: “For two days, I was the sickest I’ve ever been in my life.” The same resident nevertheless hailed the initiation of vaccine passports. ABC News meanwhile downplayed the outbreak on Cape Cod among the fully vaccinated, but another individual who had fallen ill, admitted that “it’s definitely not what I expected...
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‘Vast majority’ of Covid-19 cluster in Cape Cod were vaccinated
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freewestmedia.com ^
| 07.22.2021 | freewestmedia
‘Vast majority’ of Covid-19 cluster in Cape Cod were vaccinatedIn Cape Cod, a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean in Massachusetts, the vaccinated are falling ill with Covid-19. The American town with one of the highest vaccination rates in the state, now has the highest rate of new cases. An
official told ABC News on Monday that the “vast majority” of the 132 Covid-19 cases were among vaccinated individuals. At least 33 people in a nursing home in Yarmouth on Cape Cod have tested positive for SARS-Cov-2. Most of the residents that tested positive were vaccinated, reported the Boston...
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Shark scientists exploring NH coast, Cape Cod
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Boston Herald ^
| Friday, 07/23/2021 | RICK SOBEY
Friday, 07/23/2021 The ‘Expedition New England’ will depart Aug. 1, head north Great white shark researchers who have tagged dozens of the apex predators are heading back to Cape Cod next month, while also exploring another part of New England for the first time. Shark
scientists with OCEARCH — a nonprofit with a popular global shark tracker — are returning to the Massachusetts coast on Aug. 1. But they’re also expanding their area of work to reach a new part of the Northeast: the waters off of New Hampshire. The Granite State coast has been a missing piece of their...
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Cape Town Cops Arrested for Kidnapping Innocent Stranger to Replace Escapee
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sapeople ^
| 7/22/2021 | staff
Two South African police officers from Maitland, in Cape Town, were arrested on kidnapping charges, after they grabbed an innocent stranger off the street to replace a prisoner who had escaped under their guard! The
shocked, innocent man found himself handcuffed and in a police car, accused of housebreaking and theft, having been switched for the criminal. Despite protesting his innocence the Cape Town cops threw the man into the cells at Maitland police station. The homeless man’s pleas that he had done nothing wrong fell on deaf ears, and he spent the night behind bars until a detective arrived...
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Shark Deterrent Creates ‘A Virtual Net’ Around Swimmers, Surfers (Cape Cod shark Mitigation trial)
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CBS Boston CH. 4 ^
| July 16, 2021 | Sarah Wroblewski
WELLFLEET (CBS) – Just this week, a shark was spotted at Duxbury Beach forcing people out of the water. From
flags to signs, to alerts on your phone, if you head to the beach this summer, you’ll know if a shark has been spotted. Numerous sightings over the years have put beachgoers on edge about entering the water. However, there is a new electrical shark deterrent product that may allow people and sharks to coexist in the ocean. “We really want to encourage people to be safe in and out of the water,” says Olaf Valli owner and president of...
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Curious Cape Cod: Are you afraid of sharks?
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Cape Cod Times ^
| July 14, 2021 | Eric Williams
WELLFLEET--I had been trying to avoid this question for a long time. But
I guess Shark Week is the perfect time to admit that you're "shark weak," so here we go. It started with this: "Are you too scared of sharks to swim in the ocean?" This cut deep. I have been wrestling with the shark thing for a few years now. For most of my Cape life, boogie boarding in Wellfleet with my family was the absolute top of Joy Mountain, and I think the happiest I have ever been was when all four of us were riding the...
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In Cape Cod, New Efforts to Coexist With Sharks
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UNDARK ^
| 07.07.2021 | SARAH SAX
ON A WINDY MORNING in March, two older surfers at LeCount Hollow Beach, on Cape Cod, look out at the gray Atlantic. They are scanning the water closest to shore for seals, with whom they increasingly have to share the frigid water, which can dip as low as 37 degrees Fahrenheit in
winter. The seals are a growing demographic. They have been rebounding since the 1970s, after almost being hunted to extinction. They are recolonizing what was once their native habitat, migrating seasonally up and down the coast. The surfers, too, have started to migrate, with many now surfing exclusively...
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Cape Cod sharks hunting seals close to shore: Researchers using aerial cameras to watch great whites’ hunting behavior
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Boston Herald ^
| 37 min ago July 5,2021 | RICK SOBEY
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy is launching aerial cameras to watch great white sharks hunt seals. Cape
Cod shark researchers say it’s rare for them to see sharks attacking seals and they’re hoping to get a better glimpse into great whites’ hunting behavior this summer. The Cape shark scientists are launching aerial cameras to get a good look at the sharks hunting seals close to shore. The researchers will be setting up the fixed camera system off Orleans’ Nauset Beach to start. “It allows us to get direct observations of what these sharks are doing when they’re in shallow water,...
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Fins in the forecast (Cape Cod white sharks)
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Cape Cod Times ^
| Doug Fraser
CHATHAM — The annual summer preview, with shark researchers debriefing the media of the prior year and a look ahead to research being conducted this year, didn’t have many surprises. It’s
become a fact of life for residents and visitors that hundreds, if not more, great white sharks will be hunting seals along Cape beaches in close proximity to humans. What the briefing Tuesday morning at the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Chatham Shark Center did reveal was a tantalizing look at the potential of various research projects to peer into the daily life of these apex predators — and how...
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Cape Cod shark sightings on the rise
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Boston Herald ^
| Monday, June21,2021 | RICK SOBEY
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...
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Confirmed shark sighting leads to no swimming order at Head of the Meadow Beach (Cape Cod)
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WCVB Boston ^
| Jimeimeune 19, 2021 | Staff
TRURO, Mass. — A no swimming order has been lifted at Head of the Meadow Beach after a confirmed shark sighting forced officials to close the water temporarily late Saturday morning, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy says. The
order was issued by Cape Cod National Seashore officials, according to an alert from the conservancy's "Sharktivity" app that was sent shortly after 10:45 a.m. Saturday. Beach-only activities were still permitted during the no swimming order, which has since been lifted. According to Cape Cod National Seashore officials, sharks have bitten people three times in the waters off Truro and Wellfleet. One...
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Huge great white sharks lurking off the New York, NJ and Cape Cod coasts
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New York Post ^
| June 12, 2021 | Paula Froelich
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...
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The Fed Started The Fire: Buffet Indicator, Shiller CAPE At All-time Highs With Help A Little Help From The Federal Reserve
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Confounded Interest ^
| 06/12/2012 | Anthony B. Sanders
Singer Billy Joel almost got it right in his song “We didn’t start the fire.” The
Federal Reserve started the asset bubble fire. The famous Buffett Indicator is signalling a massive stock market bubble or serious overheating. Here is your first assignment for class. Plot the Buffett Indicator (Wilshire 5000 Total Market Full Cap Index/GDP *100 against The Federal Reserve Balance sheet). It should look like the following: How about Robert Shiller’s cyclically-adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE) ratio? It is climbing rapidly and is above Black Tuesday’s spike in 1929 but still below the peak of the dot.com bubble. In terms of...
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Lobster diver says he was swallowed by humpback whale near Cape Cod
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New York Post ^
| June 11, 2021 | Natalie O'Neill
His name’s not Jonah — but this Cape Cod man sure has something in common with the biblical figure now. Commercial
lobster diver Michael Packard was going about his business off the coast off Provincetown, Mass. when he was swallowed whole by a humpback whale — trapped in its gullet for nearly a minute before being coughed back up, according to a report. Packard, 56, was about 35 feet below the surface near Herring Cove Beach at 8 a.m. Friday when the massive mammal tried to turn him into breakfast, the Cape Cod Times reported. “All of a sudden, I...
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Cape Cod fisherman OK after whale gulps him down, spits him out
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Boston Herald ^
| June 11, 2021 | Sean Philip Cotter
A Cape Cod fisherman is recovering after miraculously emerging without serious injuries from spending nearly a minute in the maw of a humpback whale who mistook him for a snack. “I
was lobster diving and a humpback whale tried to eat me,” fisherman Packard wrote on Facebook. This salty tale begins innocuously, with the 56-year-old sea captain Packard on Friday morning looking for lobsters near Provincetown, where he’s from. He dove into the ocean to check a trap — when a passing whale gulped him down. “He was in a whale’s mouth for 30 to 40 seconds, and then he...
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Shark deterrents? Here’s how some are keeping safe in Cape Cod’s waters
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Boston.com ^
| June 7, 2021 | Arianna MacNeill
An avid surfer on Cape Cod, Jim Papadonis has seen a great white shark, and all of the surfers he goes out with have also. Read
More There was the time he saw one fully breach the water about 150 yards from where he was surfing. There was also the time a friend and fellow surfer had a shark chomp into his board just after he had rode a wave in. Papadonis, along with the rest of his surfing group, all use shark repellents from Ocean Guardian, particularly one that attaches to their surfboards, he said. Ocean Guardian devices, according...
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Shark sightings, detections start along the Cape 9Cape Cod Mass.)
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Boston Herald ^
| June 8, 2021 | RICK SOBEY
Great white shark sightings and detections are starting to increase along the Cape as the weather heats up and more people head to the ocean. One
great white shark — a nearly 11-foot female tagged off the Cape last summer — has already traveled north of Provincetown, according to OCEARCH’s shark tracker. Meanwhile, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Sharktivity app has recent shark sightings during the first week of June. A pilot flying out of Chatham Airport during a sightseeing tour last week spotted a great white about a half mile off Marconi Beach in Wellfleet. The Sharktivity app is...
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Cape Cod’s great white shark numbers increase with researchers tagging more of the predators than ever( tagging thru 2020)
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newsbreak.com/news ^
| June 4, 2021 | Graeme Massie
The population of Atlantic great white sharks around Massachusetts ’ Cape Cod peninsula has increased significantly, researchers say. A
total of 118 individual great white sharks were detected in 2020 off the coast by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy , up from only 11 in 2013. And the total number of recorded shark detections in the same period has jumped from 10,803 to 134,631. Scientists say that back in 2010 only three acoustic receivers were used, compared to 65 last year. “It’s important to remember that the receivers can only detect sharks tagged with acoustic transmitters, and there are still...
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More tags bring fuller picture of movements off shore
(Cape Cod white sharks)
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Boston Herald ^
| June 1, 2021 | RICK SOBEY
More tags bring fuller picture of movements off shore The total number of great white sharks detected along the Cape has ballooned over the last few years as researchers continue to tag more of the apex predators each summer season. Going
back to 2013, there were only 11 individual sharks detected by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy off the Massachusetts coast, according to archived data from its new white shark logbook. Then jumping ahead seven years to 2020, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy detected 118 individual sharks last year. The total number of recorded shark detections has also climbed at...
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