More than a million years ago? More than a hundred thousand years ago? More than a thousand years ago?
More than two hundred years ago when this great white attack Boston Harbor was painted?
Posted on 07/27/2022 11:03:45 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
Since first premiering in 1988, Discovery Channel's Shark Week — the annual, week-long scheduling of all things sharks — has become a phenomenon.
The U.S. had 47 unprovoked shark bites in 2021, with Florida coming in first place with 28. Despite the proliferation of shark attacks in these parts of the country, 2022's Shark Week focuses on the waters around Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and viewers will discover something fascinating and unexpected about the area.
There Are More White Sharks Off Cape Cod Than Ever Before
Even though many sharks call the waters of the Atlantic Ocean home, many forget that Cape Cod is teeming with the predators, with two dozen spotted on a recent weekend (via masslive.com). 2022's Shark Week plans to highlight the area, with one show called "Monsters of the Cape" that will feature shark scientists testing out a new shark deterrent barrier in the shark-infested waters. "It was probably one of the most thrilling things I've ever done," marine biologist Craig O'Connell told the Boston Herald about jumping into the icy water 10 feet from a 15-foot great white. "I was in pure amazement. It was so graceful, and cruised right by the barrier."
While the Atlantic Shark Institute noted an increase of white sharks in the Cape Cod area is up by 24% from the year before, scientists aren't sure if it's due to conservation efforts succeeding or more transmitters on the sharks in the waters than ever before (via Boston Globe). For viewers interested in the Cape Cod shark explosion, another show, "Great White Intersection," will actually highlight the growing number of great white sharks in the Cape Cod area following the deadly shark attack of Arthur Medici in 2018, the first shark bite related death in 82 years.
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No doubt that the federal protection the seals and white sharks have has led to their population explosions.
Cape Cod is ideally located as a fast food (seal) restaurant for white sharks traversing up and down the East coast.
People are not protected, so you swim, surf and bathe at your own risk. - Tom
There Are More White Sharks Off Cape Cod Than Ever Before........
could it be............
There Are More seals Off Cape Cod Than Ever Before?....................
Seems to me Shark Week runs for about a month.
People are fascinated with sharks but they are the ocean’s apex predator. That would be the mighty Orca.
NOT the apex predator
Shark week trying their dangdest to portray Sharks as non violent killers- Yet i notice that none who ‘study’ the sharks do so without being in a cage in the water around certain supposedly ‘surprisingly calm species around non food species’ as they like to refer to them-
You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe
Scarlet billows start to spread
A classic example of racist “whites” preying on fish of color...
even white sharks are racist....better change the name...
if y’all recall correctly, there was a statement made during the filming of the original movie “Jaws”, tat before the emergence of the mechanical shark named ‘Bruce’, that ‘nary a great wbite was seen in the area!!
Senator Kennedy and his family must have killed so many people, disposing of their bodies in the ocean, that it permanently changed shark migration.
Even sharks like to vacation at Cape Cod.
More than a million years ago? More than a hundred thousand years ago? More than a thousand years ago?
More than two hundred years ago when this great white attack Boston Harbor was painted?
In your opinion, is there any difference in the likelihood of a shark attack for a swimmer in:
1. The interior waters of Cape Cod Bay.
2. The ocean-facing (eastside) of Cape Cod.
3. The beaches of the island of Nantucket.
4. The beaches of the island of Martha’s Vineyard.
5. The little beaches near Boston.
I guess word is getting out.
https://steemit.com/life/@gungasnake/the-case-for-exterminating-sharks
I’m heading there for vacation next week! I guess I’d better be on the lookout.
Great White Privilege........................
There is so much we can learn from Great White Sharks.
Their work on Dark Matter is excellent.
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