White Shark sightings on the East Coast

From 2010?

 

Many Tiger sharks sitings in OBX this summer.

 

Its called 24/7 365 days a year MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They have always been there...cmon

 

Jaws

No attacks yet, but it's probably just a matter of time...if you feel scared, just stay out of the water and be safe!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129180179[/QUOTE]

Wow, theres really sharks in the water here.O my Gosh.No more surfing for me the rest of the year until they go home.Thank you.....

 

Seal population up on the Cape is booming......I see quite a few in NJ too.....

 

I think shark week is getting to you

 

Some tagged whites were shown to migrate up and down the east coast. Summers they're at the cape, and winters they're in Florida, where they follow the calving right whales. pretty interesting, and i cant wait to see one in person, from a boat of course.

 

there are sharks in the ocean??

 

I agree there are many sharks of late due to the warm water. I would suggest that everyone stay out of the water until like December.

 

Theres a bunch of great whites off of cape cod. there was a special on shark week called jaws comes home about the great white sharks returning to cape cod and how they travel up and down the east coast

 

well, since it is shark week, I think we should all point out that there are MANY more bullsharks all over the east coast. The Bull Shark made the #1 most feared shark by the scientists because they will attack anything, they can live in freshwater for up to 4 years and they are the most active coastal dweller from Florida to Maine.

In addition, the story that "JAWS" was based on, and we all know really took place in a new Jersey river off the coast, rather than cape cod. Scientists rules out the possibility of the NJ shark attacks being from a white shark... White sharks can not breathe at all in brackish water like that. All of the scientists on the shark features agree that a Bull Shark was in fact the predetor in New Jersey that ripped apart two children and a grown man.

So anyway, while we should be aware that there are white sharks, usually in the colder areas, well off shore on the east coast, we should all re-call the past 10-15 years of fatal attacks on our coasts...

Sandbridge, may about 10 years ago... the young boy was mauled and killed by a bull shark... The couple in Duck or Corolla, the russian couple that got mauled, and the guy died... that was a bull shark too....

So, while the bull sharks don't get larger than 10 feet, they will attack your legs, your limbs and whatever else they can grab.... and they can potentially be all over the chesapeake bay and places people are less suspecting of sharks....


So, i guess my point is, don't fear whitey! I would be more concerned with Bulls, and a close second being the tiger shark... mostly sand tiger sharks, but the big boys are out there too.

 

i saw on shark week that the russians were attacked by a tiger. But i did just google it and seems "experts" are divided.

 

yeah, the show i watched about that one was indicating a bull shark based on the injuries. The shark attacked the guy multiple times and was pulling and dragging him, and it then attacked the woman, removing a limb or 2. So they were saying that bull sharks are more likely to work that hard fighting and pulling on a victim. Big tigers are usually one shot, maybe 2 and they are done. You dont typically here of tigers wrestling their food in the shallows for almost a full minute. those "sand tiger" sharks are a tad smaller and look different than the tigers in HI etc, but I am sure they are pretty aggressive too.

http://www.wtkr.com/news/wtkr-shark-attack,0,5256473.story

There is a link to the local media coverage of the inital attacks back in 2001. They are elluding to the fact that it was the same bull shark that not only killed the kid in VB, but also the couple in OBX. Same weekend. Same wounds. Thought to be bulls.

 

Don't surf!! If you do, fluffy will eat you!!

 

Don't know if anyone heard this, but there was a gray seal that beached in LBI last weekend. I spotted him near a jetty later in the day during a session. I've been going to LBI my whole life and I've never seen one before. Anyone else spotted seals lately?

 

the russian folks in obx were attacked by a bull and sand tigers are not very aggro compared to tigers they just look scary. still wouldnt wanna tangle with one tho.