Cape Cod is not for lovers.
But oh how the Wheel of Fortuna spins. One moment, there you are with your loving family dipping toes into the autumnal water off New England’s Cape Cod. The weather, turning, is still delightful. Sun shining and ocean as blue as a sapphire.
The very next moment, the water changes crimson red as a Great White Shark has snuck right into the tranquil, mere inches from the sand, and sawn the seal right in half with its razor sharp teeth.
You try and calm your wife, comfort your children who are wailing in agony.
“Shhhh. Shhhh. It’s ok. The circle of life. And it could have been your toes instead of that poor, hapless seal. Shhhhhh.”
But watch firsthand video and tell me that the brazenness of this particular Great White Shark doesn’t fill you with a deep sense of dread, even with the inspirational music layered behind.
Or maybe hope, if you happen to be exceedingly misanthropic. Inches from the sand, in inches of water. A human baby may have been toddling right there. An elderly wader.
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy released the following statement regarding the incident.
“This is another good reminder that white sharks hunt in shallow waters off the Cape and, based on tagging data, we know that October is a peak season month for white shark activity off the Cape.”
There have been at least five shark sightings in the past two days.
And are you a New English surfer?
Very scary and/or exciting.
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I spent a summer working in the nearby campground. The whole area is so beautiful. I surfed that beach – only knee high at best during the months I was there – and caught “blue” fish from there that fought like hell and tasted great. It would have been a paradise if the place wasn’t so overcrowded and overpriced. I was basically living in a shed. The best of times, and the worst of times!
I just surf too suck cock.
Maybe it’s something we can’t comprehend, like infinity, or the size of the universe, the trillions upon trillions of solar systems.
We know nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
We are as unaware as man was thousands of years ago.
For all the smarty pants scientists, there has been miniscule progress.
The whole Internet thing is regression, not progression.
It’s a constant distraction from reality.
I’ve never loved sharks more than I do right now. Good job! Keep up the good work.
fucken hate seals! fuckers eating fish and shitting all over the rock off.
its fucked you can’t club the fucken shithouse animals too death anymore.
that was always a fun family day out
I like this one.
https://youtu.be/XtSAnt2HnhU
How much would it cost to hire a few people to fly drones over places like Esperance? I guess too much.
Sounds like a business waiting to happen at all the sharky spots. Just pay three people to drone your session.
The water is crystal clear too. Pretty easy to spot.
There’s been a paid lifeguard with a 4wd doing a ‘shark drone trial’ at our beach the last couple of weeks. It’s funny for two reasons. One, he always sets up his 100m square zone in front of the same one of my mates. And two, because whenever we walk past his protected space, we loudly discuss the 6′ shark we saw out there. Not that we did, just want to make him work harder to protect us.
Uber will probly get on it.
“Swimming With Sharks” is a good movie
Holly shit.
I’m glad someone was able to re-purpose the background music originally slated to be used for Day 1 of Tokyo Olympics Surfing, an inaugural celebration soundtrack which we can all agree was truly going to capture surfing’s future in the Olympics, the feeling that this is going to be a slaughter.
Looks like a re-enactment of the Brazilians going up against the Iranian team in the early rounds
There are no beachgoers on the east coast once summer is officially over. Even if it’s scorching hot. I think they just love paying to go, The weirdest people.
Wow, scary… not that that means anything…
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This should be on a Beachgrit t-shirt. I’d buy it.
Me too
If I could read half of it…
“Middle aged white nihilism” is the perfect description of current surf scene. Should be the catch phrase of this website
Middle aged great white nihilism?
It definitely is. It’s billboard worthy.
BGs own Terry Gilliam.
This is fucken brilliant KVF.
I love it when an insult becomes owned. Whoever this anonymous bully is, surely he realised going after the commentariat was a mistake. I mean, we’re nihilistic after all, as if we care! Yet, the compulsion to destroy this anonymous person unites us.