Posted on 10/16/2020 7:23:53 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
A shark attacked a seal close to the shore of Race Point Beach in Provincetown today.
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One day after tagging south of that area he flew the P-Town area and told me he spotted 5 white shrks there . One shark was almost on the beach, and he sent me a photo of it coming out of the white water in the surf.
Photo is below, taken in 2014. - Tom
NICE PIX.
Yours, TMN78247
Through the years Wayne has sent me a lot of pics. The one below had me puzzled because there is no reason to have a red tether line between the dart and the transmitter.
Since I occasionally have breakfast with the person doing the tagging I asked him about this, and he told me the red was tape they put on he clear monofilament tether to avoid it fraying off on the dorsal fin. -Tom
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Big white sharks off Provincetown is a relatively recent occurance. It is becoming more common, but it was rare for decades. It is interesting and it is a good video.
It was also a good illustration of shallow water hunting, which is right where the smallest kids are going to be playing in the surf at the beach.
Seal Island is in False Bay South Africa has faded as a white shark hot spot.
Below is an excerpt from a Sept 4, 2020 e-mail from a South African involved with white sharks. -Tom
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How bad is it? In False Bay, home of the famous flying sharks the Shark Spotter Programme that has trained viewers out looking for sharks every day of the year on three mountains overlooking the bay there have been no sightings for the last year/ 18 months.
We'll be at trail 6 or 7 on Nauset this weekend, binoculars in hand. If its sunny you can see the dark mass of a body moving under water, usually seals. At some point one of those dark masses will be a shark. Cool video. Saw it on FB.
One of the things I noticed when I first started shark fishing was how close to the surface a shark could swim without leaving a V shape track in the water, and that includes 10 foot sharks with the tip of their dorsals inches below the surface.
If you want to see them get up as high as you can. -Tom
The photo below is from Chatham, Mass. - before conclusive white shark photos were available.
That's my good friend John Chisholm taking notes and sounding the alarm to the Capies that white sharks are here. -Tom
While we do NOT usually have GW in South Texas coastal waters, due to the warm water, at least one young (pre-teen) boy was TAKEN by a shark in ANKLE-deep water near Bolivar, TX some years ago.
(My guess is that the predator was either a BULL or a TIGER shark.)
I see NO reason that a GW could NOT do the same thing, especially at high tide.
Yours, TMN78247
While we do NOT usually have GW in South Texas coastal waters, due to the warm water, at least one young (pre-teen) boy was TAKEN by a shark in ANKLE-deep water near Bolivar, TX some years ago.
(My guess is that the predator was either a BULL or a TIGER shark.)
I see NO reason that a GW could NOT do the same thing, especially at high tide.
Yours, TMN78247
Nice info, when do the sharks move on typically?
Many years ago, I remember reading about early Spanish and Portuguese explorers in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. They were of course under the dietary proscriptions of the Catholic church which called for fish on Fridays and during Lent. When they encountered manatees they believed they were fish and referred to them in their journals as, "fish that tasted like beef."
An occasional white shark will be here all winter even in Jan-Feb.- Tom
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