OT: it was just a matter of time

[August_West]

never a question of “if” always just “when “

Poor kid . Horrible.

SPECIAL REPORT: Fatal Shark attack at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet

It has happened so fast up there. In just one decade sharks have changed what cape cod is. Because you really can’t go there for beach swimming any longer through August /sept

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

My father still swims out there every morning. My mother vacillates between trying to prevent it and encouraging it, depending on her mood.

 

[Scrutiner]

My father still swims out there every morning. My mother vacillates between trying to prevent it and encouraging it, depending on her mood.

Happy wife, happy life?

 

[August_West]

My father still swims out there every morning. My mother vacillates between trying to prevent it and encouraging it, depending on her mood.

She should dress him up like a seal.

 

[Northbound]

Meh. It’s possible that it happens, just not probable.

Get rid of the seals or at least cull the population significantly and the shark issues will dissipate.

Other benefit will be the bass fishery will come back to the way it once was.

I think my folks still are in the water everyday up there as well.

https://www.thewildlifemuseum.org/exhibits/sharks/odds-of-a-shark-attack/

 

[superjohn]

Meh. It’s possible that it happens, just not probable.

Get rid of the seals or at least cull the population significantly and the shark issues will dissipate.

Other benefit will be the bass fishery will come back to the way it once was.

I think my folks still are in the water everyday up there as well.

https://www.thewildlifemuseum.org/exhibits/sharks/odds-of-a-shark-attack/

Get rid of the people, the ocean is for seals and sharks.

 

[Fishy]

My father still swims out there every morning. My mother vacillates between trying to prevent it and encouraging it, depending on her mood.

He's out of his mind.

 

[MadDogRevival]

He's out of his mind.

Yeah, but, he's out of the house.

 

[noeynox]

Yikes! It up there earlier this summer. There were no shark warnings. Waters too rough to go swimming anyway.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

He's out of his mind.

No argument.

 

[Exit 4]

When the sharks arrived regularly in 2010 ish I started changing my summer plans. The seals will eventually be in block and Montauk and the same conditions will follow.

 

[8893]

When the sharks arrived regularly in 2010 ish I started changing my summer plans. The seals will eventually be in block and Montauk and the same conditions will follow.

Yeah I'm wondering how long until it's an issue in South County, RI, where we've been going for ocean beaches. Not going in the water would definitely change our plans.

 

[Deepster]

Had a good talk about the marine landscape of the Cape over the last 10years this summer. Seals have come in and changed the picture of what fish are prevalent. There aren’t many cod around Cape Cod. And then the sharks followed the seals. The only real viable fish in the waters now are not popular in America and sold in Europe. Time will take its course. When the seals are all eaten, the sharks will leave.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Meh. It’s possible that it happens, just not probable.

Get rid of the seals or at least cull the population significantly and the shark issues will dissipate.

Other benefit will be the bass fishery will come back to the way it once was.

I think my folks still are in the water everyday up there as well.

https://www.thewildlifemuseum.org/exhibits/sharks/odds-of-a-shark-attack/

Had a good talk about the marine landscape of the Cape over the last 10years this summer. Seals have come in and changed the picture of what fish are prevalent. There aren’t many cod around Cape Cod. And then the sharks followed the seals. The only real viable fish in the waters now are not popular in America and sold in Europe. Time will take its course. When the seals are all eaten, the sharks will leave.

I heard on the radio the seal population has rebounding thanks to federal protective status.

Sharks following seals as a food source doesn't qualify as law of unintended consequences. It's a known direct correlation.

 

[methodology]

Had a good talk about the marine landscape of the Cape over the last 10years this summer. Seals have come in and changed the picture of what fish are prevalent. There aren’t many cod around Cape Cod. And then the sharks followed the seals. The only real viable fish in the waters now are not popular in America and sold in Europe. Time will take its course. When the seals are all eaten, the sharks will leave.

Rising water temps are also part of the problem

 

[Paesano]

He's out of his mind.

True but I admire him.

 

[Deepster]

Rising water temps are also part of the problem

Prove that.

 

[methodology]

Prove that.

Sharks Are Creeping Into the Northeast Because of Climate Change

 

[sledog]

When the sharks arrived regularly in 2010 ish I started changing my summer plans. The seals will eventually be in block and Montauk and the same conditions will follow.

This is true. The sharks follow the seals, ans the seals have been on the cape. MBL info

 

[Northbound]

I heard on the radio the seal population has rebounding thanks to federal protective status.

Sharks following seals as a food source doesn't qualify as law of unintended consequences. It's a known direct correlation.

No kidding.

If you don’t have friends that are commercial fisherman in small boats out of cape towns you really can’t appreciate how seal protection has fouled the fishery.

I’d rather off the seals than the sharks.

Should bring some Inuit down from Canada and let them have at it.

 

[Matt1010]

Absolutely terrible situation and really feel for the family. You are also making it sound like Cape Cod has a shark epidemic...this is the first fatality in 82 years and there have only been 2 total non-fatal incidents in the last 20.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Prove that.

Water temps in the Atlantic off of the New England Coast have risen noticeably. Sharks aside, the local fishing industry is very concerned about this. Warming temps is why Connecticut's lobster catch in Long Island Sound is less than half of what it was 25 years ago, while Maine's lobster catch has exploded. Co, scallops, soft-shell clams, etc. are all being impacted. If the trend continues, in a 100 years, Connecticut will be importing its lobsters from Newfoundland and Greenland.

Climate change to have drastic effects on Gulf of Maine lobster and clam fisheries, studies say

 

[Deepster]

Sharks Are Creeping Into the Northeast Because of Climate Change

Thats a junk article from a junk website. And no one is even sure of the species of shark involved yet. So you don’t know if it was one indigenous to that area.

 

[jdb50]

Absolutely terrible situation and really feel for the family. You are also making it sound like Cape Cod has a shark epidemic...this is the first fatality in 82 years and there have only been 2 total non-fatal incidents in the last 20.

This is just the beginning. Many charter guys are having white sharks come up, follow the boat and take stripers as they are being reeled in inside Cape Cod Bay. Many of these have been 9-10 footers so they can come clsoe to shore with no problem in the bay. Smart people don't jump off the boat to go swimming anymore. Paddle boarders and kayakers are also going to get hit eventually in the bay. There were sharks taking seals inside 30 feet from shore on the ocean side all summer long. This is first and foremost a shark problem and they need to be culled. There are most likely 400 plus off the Cape based on the research info coming in. Figuring out what to do with the seals should come later. Yes the sharks have always been there but the close to shore sightings weren't through the 90's. The surfers are going to have to wait till late November when the sharks migrate south.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Because swimming at the Y is too boring I guess

What do these idiots in the ocean think they’re doing