Great white shark visits to Cape Cod on the rise – IOTW Report

Great white shark visits to Cape Cod on the rise

FOX: BOSTON – Great white sharks are discovering what tourists have known for years: Cape Cod is a great place to spend the summer.

The latest data from a multiyear study of the ocean predators found that the number of sharks in waters off the vacation haven appears to be on the rise, said Greg Skomal, a senior scientist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, and the state’s top shark expert.

But that’s no reason to cancel vacation. The sharks are after seals, not humans, and towns are using the information from the study to keep it that way.

“How long does it stay and where does it go are the questions we’re trying to answer,” Skomal said. “But for the towns, it’s a public safety issue.”

Researchers using a plane and boats spotted 147 individual white sharks last summer. That was up slightly from 2015, but significantly more than the 80 individual sharks spotted in 2014, the first year of the study, funded by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.

More than half the white sharks spotted last summer hadn’t previously been documented by this study.
Researchers have also tagged more than 100 to track their movements.  MORE

SNIP: Shouldn’t that be Great Caucasian American Sharks?

17 Comments on Great white shark visits to Cape Cod on the rise

  1. So demoncrap and rhino politicins are retiring there?

    Love the meme. This is why I will not swim in water where I can’t see what’s swimming around me. Although I used to when I was a kid. It is seriously a miracle I am still alive.

  2. A Father and Son Shark are cruising the Ocean when they come upon

    Shipwreck survivors floating in the Water.

    The Father tells the Son, first We cruise by them, with only 2 inches

    of Our Fins out of the water, then We go by again with 6 inches out of

    the water,then We go by a third time with Our Fins completely exposed”

    The Son asks why not eat them on the first pass?

    The Father says

    ” Cuz they taste better without all of that Sh*t inside them”

  3. Sharks? Public Safety issue? Oh really?
    How many people have been bitten or killed in the Cape Area??

    The “real” threats to public safety in Cape Cod are:
    Domestic violence, home invasion, sexual assault, sex offenders, murder, assault and battery, illegal alien criminals, Retail theft, juvenile delinquents, drunk or drug impaired drivers, arson and burglary.

    Where’s the headlines on the real versus the imaginary safety issues.

  4. I swim in the Pacific regularly (when it’s a little warmer though). It’s murky, and I know white sharks at least potentially are around. I also know that they won’t bite me.
    But they could…
    I remember back in 2001, slow news summer because a slight uptick in shark attacks (most of which were 3′ sharks in Florida/Carolinas nipping peoples’ ankles in murky water) suddenly became headline news. And then it was immediately dropped on September 11.

  5. Hay Just Al,

    Do not go in the ocean looking for answers. These sharks can be over 20 feet. Go outside look at your roof top, single story about 10 feet. Would you want to have something twice that big swimming at you with a mouthful of razor sharp teeth? Count me gone!!!

  6. Cue the cello music from Jaws. I hate sharks, I caught a small 6 ft. dog shark off the coast of Wash. State out of Westport once back in the 70’s on a fishing charter. The Capt. of the boat wouldn’t let me keep, so he shot it with a 45, cut the line and threw it back in the water. The biggest shark I ever saw was a very large about 20 ft. or so Hammerhead shark in crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean when we made a port of call visit to Mombasa, Kenya in 1974, the darn thing was humungous.

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