I've been telling my wife for several years that it's just a matter of time before the great whites here start killing people in the waters off the cape. Well, I was right. In recent years there has been a pair of non-fatal attacks attributed to great whites, but today marks the first time in some 80 years that a shark has killed anyone in New England waters. I find myself wondering what happens now. In cases where bears and cats and alligators and whatnot, the offending critters are found, if at all possible, and killed for their transgressions. My guess is that no hunt for the shark will take place. Maybe when a few more folks wind up on the white sharks' menu some will call for that sort of thing, but I'd be against it. You enter waters where known maneaters eat, you take your chances.
Gettin' et by a shark must be a singularly horrible way to slide down the curtain and join the choir invisible.
I've been running the Outer Banks of North Carolina since the mid 70's. A couple of years ago they had a rash of shark attacks in water little more than waist deep. They seem to have subsided as of late.
get in the surf past your knees you become part of the food chain. most people don't understand that.
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get in the surf past your knees you become part of the food chain. most people don't understand that.
Always my thoughts too. I always shudder now when I remember racing a friend’s son out to half mile bouy in the green, opaque, winter waters off Cabo St Lucas. Had to look like an old Heddon 𝚃𝚘𝚙-water lure.
Always surprised we don't have more attacks here. Luckily we, humans, don't smell of act like their average meal. Sure proves the wrong bait and presentation CAN illicit an occasional bite though.
Once upon a time, long, long, ago; 1970 to be exact, I was a lifeguard on the coast of North Carolina. We occasionally saw sharks but they were all fairly small and known as " sand sharks". That whole saltwater ecosystem was fascinating to a guy who'd grown up swimming in the freshwater of Lake Ontario. Never heard of a shark attack that summer and never gave it much of a thought even when swimming way out past the breakers. Nobody back then seemed too concerned about sharks so I wasn't either. Now I wonder if I'd been deceived into a false sense of security.
My first real job at age 16 was on a trawler out in the Gulf of Mexico. I was amazed at the number of big sharks that stayed with us to eat our by-catch that we pushed overboard. If a fleet of trawlers were concentrated there would be sharks breaking the surface as far as you could see. It seemed that Galveston was a congregating place for sharks. A captain I worked had lost a man overboard and he said he watched the sharks tear him to pieces. They were actively following the boat and feeding. I wouldn't get over knee deep in salt water.
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I was staying in my cabin at Fourth Cliff and saw the antics of a monster white from my adirondack chair. I might make love in the dunes of the cape, but I’ll be damned if I swim there.
I was staying in my cabin at Fourth Cliff and saw the antics of a monster white from my adirondack chair. I might make love in the dunes of the cape, but I’ll be damned if I swim there.
I’m not sure what hurts more, getting eaten by a shark or a sandy pecker while making love in the dunes of the cape? Fugging with double sided 80 grit ain’t no fun for you or her. 😂
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