Cape Cod thrust back into the limelight.
A 20-year-old man boogie boarding at a beach near Cape Cod, Mass. was attacked by a shark yesterday and killed. It was the first shark attack in Cape Cod in 80 years.
Local police released the statement:
Around noontime today (9/15) a male swimmer at Newcomb Hollow Beach was bitten by what is believed to be a shark. The male victim mid 20’s was pulled from the water, provided emergency first aid to include CPR. The male victim was transported to Cape Cod Hospital by the Wellfleet Fire Department, were he passed from the injuries.
The name and info of the victim is being held till proper notification.
Wellfleet PD is working with the National Park Service and the MA State Police on this investigation.
And the Associated Press interviewed a local fisherman:
“I was that guy on the beach screaming, ‘Shark, shark!’ It was like right out of that movie Jaws. This has turned into Amity Island real quick out here.”
Amity Island is, of course, the fictional Cape Cod town terrorized by a giant great shark in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws.
It has long been believed that Jaws was based on a series of 1916 shark attacks that terrorized New Jersey but the author of the book denied this and said he based his work off the 1964 story of a fisherman who harpooned a 4500 lbs shark off the coast of Long Island.
To be honest, I didn’t really know that great whites were an Atlantic thing. I thought the east coast’s big worry was bull sharks. I thought Hawaii’s big worry was tiger sharks. I thought the west coast and Australia’s west coast’s big worry was great white sharks. As a lifelong west coaster (except for a few childhood years spent in Papua New Guinea), I always felt a little proprietary about the great white.
I suppose I’ll have to adjust my worldview (again).
I thought Amity Island was a front for Martha’s Vineyard not Cape Cod
It was filmed at Martha’s Vineyard. But in the book, Amity is in Long Island I believe.
Yeah but I’m the book (and movie) you had to take a ferry to get there
I don’t understand the Individual Sharks figure.
Proprietary of great whites???? that is just nonsense. Only someone from California would think of something so ridiculous. Are you proprietary of palm trees, too?
sea temp changes due to climate change will impact this, too, moving forward. may have to net some of their beaches at some point.
the seal population came back, nothing to do with climate
Have Chas or Derek ever read the novel Jaws? That thing is like 75% medium-core pornography. Seems like it would dovetail the BG interests quite nicely!
“Watch the movie before you go Surfing”, there I fixed it
build a beachfront pool. problem solved.
Stoked to see my handle in print, man was a legend NJ fisherman. It was a matter of time at cape cod with all seals around, this might hurt tourism some.
pulled up to that beach 7.30 am one day, everyone in the back of their trucks changing out of their rubber, thought the parking was turning to paid parking, I pulled up looking at the waves firing, guy walks up and says they got buzzed by a great white. I didn’t surf that day
This is why we have Derek do the Shark stories Chas.
Not only was he wrong about great whites, this was actually the 2nd Cape Cod shark attack in just over a month (it is however the first fatal attack since 1936.)
Chas, the coverage you provided last week on Kelly’s surf tub was the tits. I really enjoyed it… Regarding your comment about the sharks, Cape Cod has become infested with seals over the past five years, so the Great White population has skyrocketed. The seals are now protected on Cape Cod. There’s a shit ton of surfers on the cape. All summer, sharks have been hitting seals right on the beach. There’s a ton of footage and news stories of people getting chased out of the water. This was inevitable. Just google “great white cape cod” and prepare to soil your pants…
if I remember correctly, pam knows about soiled pants
Looks like a good location for the KPond.
this is why the old timers didnt go swimming. The ecosystem has returned to a more normal state after haveing been over fished
Amity Island is Marthas Vinyard not the cape
You can add just about every cold water coast to your Great White list I reckon. So scary being buzzed by a great white checking you out on a lonely winters morning, it almost makes time stand still.
Bulls and Tigers are more likely to be in warm water I think.
Isn’t Nantucket a Orca or great white protected ocean preserve?
great white.
It is where they go to have babies.
Don’t let those soft cocks from Maths thier ,they will have fucken signs helicopters the water police clubbies drum lines nets and no access bans in place before you can say tourist dollars.
Margaret River
A 20-year-old man boogie boarding?
He died mate. Remember when you try and make others feel lame, we are all here commenting on the internet as a past time.
I know. I kind of blew it as I read that line first, commented then read the rest of the article and felt shit about myself and above comment. Sharks fucken terrify me and to be honest anyone on a boogie board out in the ocean is fucken fearless having that much of there limbs dangling about. RIP.
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Soft response, Dooma.
You know that the character Quint in “Jaws’ is based on Frank Mundus who was primarily based in Montauk, right?
My parents bought a house down the street from Newcomb Hollow 4 yrs ago and I was stoked…and then became aware that in the summer this is white sharkiest place in the country by far. Constant sightings, seals attacked, boats being bumped. I’ve sat out in great surf there and when a few people paddled in, I did too (rational or not I couldn’t take it). It was a matter of time.
A shark was just spotted on a flooded street in Newbern NC which Is 20 miles from the coast.
He’s going to feel like the winning sperm in a fat chick when the streets dry up.
I’ve seen white sharks (from a boat!) in the north atlantic, miles away from the south west coast of France. Those guys are quite everywhere, but in real small numbers! There are white sharks in the mediterranean sea.
Sorry for this kid and his family.