Just in time for the 25th anniversary of "Shark Week" on Discovery.

Shark Week 2012 | Starts Sunday, Aug 12, 2012 at 9PM e/p on Discovery - YouTube

I have yet to not see a seal on a backside beach this year. Day or night. There will be more attacks. You cannot blame the sharks for the mistake as 99.9% of the time they attack a shadow in the water it's a seal. On a sunny Saturday in July, I bet the seals in the water on the outer beaches outnumber swimmers 500-1.
On a separate note, why do weekend warrior boogie boarders who only go into the water (at low tide) for a 10 minute stint of looking like an ass need to wear a $300 full wetsuit with flippers?
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Farewell and adieu you fine Spanish ladies…………
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It was a White Shark....

Maybe it was a scuba diving bear
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I personally expected this to happen the first time they showed up on our shore line up here.
I never thought for one minute the seals were cute!!
Look to California, all the way to the state of Washington.
They have taken over.
Unfortunately the seals aren’t going away and neither are the whites!
You have not heard the last from them then the goody two shoes will be crying out, WHY ISNT SOMEONE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!!
Its actuall to late at this point.:fury:

Just when you thought it was safe the cape cod bear is back with scuba gear
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I'm sure there are many more GWs swimming around than being reported. Only a matter of time before it happens again. Even a "taste test" can end up being fatal. You won't catch me swimming in those waters....:err:

There's no quick fix to this either. They won't be doing any seal removal and they definitely won't be shooting any sharks any time soon. Gonna take many more "accidents" before ANYTHING happens. Beach closings to swimmers will be the best they can do.

Bombas beware when yakking out there!!! :buds:

You are 100% correct a couple of years ago when the first public sighting happened. Creating the new shark hysteria I asked a friend of mine who works at woods hole. Why are they just showing up now? He plainly said to me they have always been around in smaller numbers just no one ever saw them. The numbers are growing now and with the buffet of easily accessible food around they will continue to grow.
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My thought is why would you go swimming that far out in shark and seal infested waters.
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Right, you just can not fix stupid :smash:

Our political system is so screwed up that Congress can't pass legislation that everyone wants. So, can you imagine how long it would take to repeal the Marine Mammal Protection Act? Animal rights and conservation groups would fight it tooth and nail, and even if the law were repealed, they'd launch court challenges.

Those aren't the greatest swimming beaches to start with. The water is bone-numbing cold most of the time. Surfers get hit by GWs regularly in California. They're aware of the risks and accept them.

I really dread the hysteria that this is going to cause. When a human enters the ocean, he or she becomes part of the food chain--we are no longer the apex predator. ;)

There was a poll on fox 25 news last night about how many are in favor of repealing the protection acts so that the seal population can be reduced. I fell asleep before the results came in. Anyone catch it?

Probably the best line in that movie...

"You'd love to prove that, wouldn't you? Get your name into the National Geographic?"

When you look at some of those photos on the Cape Cod Shark Hunters website it really is amazing to me nothing has happened until now.

They are right on of the beach at times, practically in the break of the waves. You'd have to think there's been plenty of close passes and sharks lurking barely out of range of people in the shallows, waiting for an opportunity, just like they'd do with a seal.

Even during my Ute you never heard of them.
All the time I spent swimming as a kid in ALL the local beaches around Boston, Revere, NH, Quincy, Nantasket, all the way down to the cape scares the crap out of me today as an elder.
I will admit that I have had a fishing rod in my hand since I was five years old and I love being near and on the water however I stopped swimming in Saltwater when the movie came out about Jaws!!
My life preserver coats in my boat all have razor knives in them.
My favorite scene is the girl on the water ski.
The minute I saw it I said to my wife, it looks just like a big plug to me!!!!

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They're saying it was a GW now

Unless a LOT of people get eaten - it is too late to do anything about the seals. Even then people are more likely to say close the beaches humans-shouldn't-be-there-anyway

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Yeah I agree that it is very unlikely anything will happen with the seal protection.
Hey, in South Africa and Australia, these sharks are everywhere and people just deal with it, gonna have to be what we do as well.
Although, if I lived on the cape, I would be getting myself and boat and lose the kayak!

Bring back the nose bounty!!! Hell, instead of the town paying me per nose, I'd gladly pay them $5 per seal that I'm allowed to take out.

I wonder if they will start expanding their range beyond that area of the cape. I know that they will range all the way up to Canada, but I'm talking about numbers.

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she gives the results

31 % feel the seal population is out of balance

61% say it's fine

6-8% say only if a confirmed shark attack



well that attack was confirmed I thought

Maybe they should re-take to poll after this story.

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I'd throw 500 bucks into that game...

I would like to add these big baby’s! Both of them are dining on stripers!!!!
Allot of stripers!!!

Thanks for the heads up Bloo. They aren't going to get me though. I taste like farts.

And I don't have a kayak.

In 1996 a guy was bitten at Cold Storage Beach, bayside in North Truro. He was ridiculed as have being bitten by bluefish. His wounds were moast definately NOT bluefish bites. He decided to get s-faced in town and borrowed his buddy's car without asking. He was charced with car theft and OUI. Vacation from Hell!
In The Smithsonion hangs a Great White, huge fish, caught in 1911.
There have always been sharks there and there always will. If humans want to swim safely then they have to control the seal populations whic in my HO are way out of wack.

Shark taste test
 

Someone theorized that the shark was only doing a taste test.

Perhaps something like this: Shark taste test - YouTube

Then something possibly a SHARK has tasted Rappin Mikey -it stands to reason.:think: