Video shows 5 giant sharks surrounding couple’s boat off Massachusetts coast – IOTW Report

Video shows 5 giant sharks surrounding couple’s boat off Massachusetts coast

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They’re gonna need a bigger boat.

A couple lobster fishing off the coast of Massachusetts spotted five enormous sharks surrounding their boat — all frighteningly larger than the vessel itself.

Perry and Carmel Long were cruising in their 18-foot boat near Westport on June 9 when they spotted a 25-foot shark lurking below the ocean’s surface and began filming while discussing whether it might be a whale. more

14 Comments on Video shows 5 giant sharks surrounding couple’s boat off Massachusetts coast

  1. A reminder that David Webster who was the first to write a memoir of Easy Company/Band of Brothers, also wrote a book about sharks.
    Both books were published posthumously, as he went out to sea off the coast of Santa Monica, CA in September 1961 to study sharks – in a 12-foot sailboat – and was lost at sea.
    Also, sharks just want to be hugged! 🙂
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kenyon_Webster

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  2. “The couple had been trying to catch lobsters in pots when they unwittingly sunk their teeth into the scary side of marine life.”

    Damn, that’s some Pulitzer Prise winning wordsmithing.

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  3. HAH! They want to see White Sharks, should have been fishing with me in Tomales Point/ Bodega Bay area when it’s baby shark making season! It wasn’t uncommon to hook into a 30 plus pound King Salmon and only the fish’s head would make it to the boat!

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  4. Basking Sharks are NOT man eaters. They eat plankton. They’re harmless slow moving and feed much like whales or the infamous Whale Shark which I have swam with and live to tell about it.

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  5. Drat, that damn Woods Hole Institute missed the chance to tag the sharks, name them, and then propagandize how humans are invading their domain off Cape Cod.

    Shark-huggers are as sick as tree-huggers.

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  6. I think Brad might have appreciated what I ended up naming the boat.

    It was the 357th Corinthian made, so that was it’s hull number.

    My friend suggested just putting the number on the stern with a period before it.

    Boom! .357 was born. The sails all had the hull numbers on them anyway, but the name goes on the stern.

    My biggest competitor was Mac McCoy, whose theme song was Mack the Knife at the awards dinners. Of course I got to tell him he shouldn’t have brought a knife to a gun fight when I beat him.

    Good times.

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