“Even with COVID, they are still out there. ... We know they are coming close to shore...”
The 4th of July is usually a fine celebration of American values, freedoms, food and firearms, or at least fireworks. It is especially wonderful of the country’s east coast where the brave colonists fought off British impudence, or at least imperialism, over 200 years ago.
Massachusetts, one of those original colonies, celebrates with many parades and much red, white and blue bunting.
This year, though, officials fear there will only be red as in blood red as in massive, never-before-seen, shark attack.
It has been reported that Great Whites are amassing by the hundreds off Cape Cod sending shivers down the spines of those whose jobs it is to keep people safe.
Cape Cod National Seashore Chief Ranger Leslie Reynolds, in a press conference, “Even with COVID, they are still out there. … We know they are coming close to shore.”
Seals have been washing up on that shore with massive bite marks taken out.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy research show that Great Whites are everywhere, from the tip of Monomoy around Provincetown to the mouth of the canal in Cape Cod Bay. Buoys have identified signals from tags on over 200 great white sharks in 2019 showed that the bulk of the population, and the biggest sharks, still appear to reside along the Outer Cape’s Atlantic beaches. One buoy at Nauset Beach showed nearly 3,800 detections from 64 individual sharks last year. A buoy off North Truro showed over 14,000 signals received from 53 sharks.
And this year there seem to be more.
Trauma kits are being delivered to lifeguard stations and signs posted but officials worry it will not be enough.
Orleans Natural Resources Manager Nathan Sears said, “The key to this is changing the behavior of people. They have to recognize that there’s a peak season when these animals are here.”
Red, red and red.
If there are hundreds of the same animal in one place why can’t we fish for them? Obviously not something that needs to be on protected species list.
you must be a biologist with such sublime and erudite statements.
Do you think George Washington was too scared to surf because of some stupid sharks… maybe actually.
these sharks are obviously Trump supporters and as such, should be hunted with impunity
I have been there every year for the last 15+ and watched the seal/GW pop explode. GW was in the lineup one year during a fun swell a few clicks south. Good waves but not surfing there anymore until things settle.
I’ve known every seal/GW on the west coast for the last 15+ years. Not all of them are called Bruce.
Sebastián?
I think they prefer those prone to strokes and diabetes.
The bulbous sort ya know.
Only in blue states
And near statues and nice parks
The idea reminds me of the XFL Jersey nicknames.
He Hate Me
Dirty Durden
Chronic Y2K1
Thresher shark spotted in the waters just off Rockaway Beach this afternoon.
Gang bangers lighting up the boroughs and the sharks are terrorizing the NYC beaches.
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Exactly…he was giving everyone the side eye.
shark laden areas could be the perfect markets for wave pools. stuff them full of kooks that’ll never step foot into the ocean but will pump money into the surf industry. Win-win real surfers get empty waves and the content that happens when companies have midwesterner/finance bro money to burn
Taking a play from some of the commentariot’s play book; why not sacrifice a few likely to die, or already dead, COVID positive bodies to the waters? If the virus can jump species to the GWS’s and the concentration of numbers, they’ll be wiped out in 3 months. Even less if they follow El Donaldo’s advice.
Sharks need water in their “lungs”. In fact, you could say they’re pneumonia enthusiasts.
If you immediately send the sharks to a Cuomo approved nursing home they will certainly die.
Please.
More danger holding a sign on the street.
Or being an innocent black man.
Especially if there is another young black man with an illegal gun nearby.
Or if youre in the child seat while daddy is a gang bangin
🎵When my baby is walking down the street
I see red, I see red, I see red ….. 🎶
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friends of the enz!
If great white sharks could wear jerseys with social justice statements, what would they state?
Besides being a professional agitator Surf journalist, and part-time pretty good white Great White enthusiast, you’re something of a Suggestional Guru. So I ask, why isn’t the WSL following the NBA’s player union negotiated move allowing players to replace their names with social justice statements?
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul, president of the National Basketball Players Association, told ESPN’s “The Undefeated” on Saturday that the players’ union and the league are collaborating to allow players to wear jerseys with personalized social justice, social cause or charity messages on the backs instead of their last names during the upcoming restart of the NBA season.”
You know who else wear jerseys with their names on it? Professional Social Justice Surfers, that’s who. It seems we have to do all the work for the WSL these days so let’s get the ball rolling.
Top Ten: what do you suggest be their social justice statements?
Save Jadson Andre. QS surfers battling it out will need all the help they can muster.
Italo – Stoke-ed, not psyche-ed
Gabby – Body waxing awareness
Jordy – Power to the titmice
Felipé – Bless-ed are the meek (waves)
Kolohe – San Clemente uber alles
Kanoa – Origami for life
DubJ – Yachty botty rules
Smelly – Show me the money
O-Dog – Families that stick together get sick together
Jeremy – Don’t oui oui in your wettiee
What? No one is going to mention Kobe’s malicious prosecution when that White Girl™️ wouldn’t let him go Greek?
Mecedes
They built Hitlers cars
Now Lewis has his Mercedes
F1 car painted all black for BLM.
You’d struggle to make this shit up.
Cost 300 Mill to win his trophy and his trillion dollar bonus
No wonder he’s Kelly’s mate
Half white piece of shit!!
A lot of Jews drive Mercedes
I guess it’s similar to a lot of criminals who wanna fuck a policewoman (or man, if they lean that way)…
Forgiveness is divine.
Or an online (emotionally challenged person) choosing a hijab for his avatar
Water off a sea eagles back, bill.
Sorry, don’t follow the old Hopoate code
Anyway, it looks good on you … it really makes your eyes sparkle
Did you see that girl soccer player crying before her game when the whites were kneeling and standing for the anthem
She used to be a team mate
Now she’s a black team mate
BLM is a racist piece of shit