Posted on 08/31/2019 7:12:38 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
Witness Martin Smith, then 13 years old in 1936, told me his task was to clean all the blood out of the rowboat they brought Troy ashore in.- Tom
Ok let’s see... I would have been there in the 60s mostly. Seems like I remember being able to walk all the way out to the tip. Went back in the 80s a few times and it was no longer possible.
IF they gave him the chore soon enough, that would be an easy job. = Turn the rowboat on its side, wash it out good with a bucket & then let it dry.
A day or 2 later, it would have been a more difficult & very UNPLEASANT job.
(In my college days, I briefly worked for a “crime scene clean-up company”, that cleaned up blood/brains/etc. from murder/suicide/traffic accident scenes in buildings/vehicles = NOT FUN.)
Yours, TMN78247
He had to do it right away as they needed the rowboat to go out and get people on moorings. - Tom
GOOD thing.
Yours, TMN78247
“The impact in the community is ongoing. I know we need to move on and continue to live our lives, but we don’t want to forget Arthur and what happened at Newcomb Hollow,” said Suzanne Grout Thomas, Town Beach Director, at a select board meeting.
Other memorial ideas included a boulder with engraving, or possibly a memorial with a larger plaque to include possible future victims of shark attack.
Tom here- I think the last suggestion is a bad PR move.- Tom
There will be future victims however
I strongly suspect that you are 100% CORRECT.
I keep wondering WHEN, rather than IF, a TIGER or BULL will take another swimmer in front of our family beach-house on Oak Island, NC.
(Anytime that the water is warm enough to swim, the water is TOO WARM for Great Whites but 8 months of the year we DO have numerous Tigers & Bulls “in residence”.)
Yours, TMN78247
Several times on bringing up a boat from Florida, or the Bahamas, to Boston, we would go between Oak Island and Baldhead Island, and stop in Gulfport - a place I liked.
An occasional tagged white shark has visited that area. -Tom
The pool at The Chatham Bars Inn is quite nice.
VERY TRUE. Nonetheless, the seawater is too warm much of the year off NC for Whites and/or porbeagles to remain long.
Yours, TMN78247
Cape Cod Times By Mary Ann Bragg 9/3/2019
DUXBURY — A minke whale carcass was examined by scientists Monday at Duxbury Beach and then buried on high ground there, according to a New England Aquarium spokesman. The carcass of the 28-foot male whale, which was seen in waters off Hull last week, eventually came ashore Sunday. The carcass had been heavily preyed upon by white sharks and blue sharks, spokesman Tony LaCasse said. SNIP
Following an on-site necropsy by International Fund for Animal Welfare scientists in late July, a minke whale carcass was buried on a beach in North Truro in a large hole just above the high tide line.
The problem with burying whale carcasses near the ocean is if any whale scent leaks into the ocean, and a shark shows up,.....well, you get the picture. -Tom
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.