In a prior interview, Skomal outlined continued research efforts this summer including using more sophisticated satellite tags that track sharks in greater detail, as well as providing environmental data, depth, acceleration and even some video. Carlstrom said it was a very difficult decision to pull lifeguards from Head of the Meadow Beach given the shark presence there but he had to base his decision on how many people used the beach and the low numbers of rescues at that site. Sears and Pike said they were installing a trauma kit at Skaket along with additional signage and other measures. “They’ve proven what we felt all along, that sharks are pretty well distributed all along Cape Cod,” said Seashore park Superintendent Brian Carlstrom. ‘It was so crazy’: Man handles shark with bare hands on Delaware beach in viral video.Researchers feel it’s likely there are many more sharks not being tracked. And those are only the sharks that have been tagged. A buoy off North Truro showed over 14,000 signals received from 53 sharks.īut there were also 31 great whites off Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown last year and the Rock Harbor buoy in Orleans adjacent to popular Skaket Beach recorded over 1,300 hits from 17 white sharks. One buoy at Nauset Beach showed nearly 3,800 detections from 64 individual sharks last year. Buoys that record the unique identifying 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. Town and park officials point to research by Skomal and the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy that showed that sharks were everywhere, from the tip of Monomoy around Provincetown to the mouth of the canal in Cape Cod Bay. “It’s just wishful thinking on our part,” said Pike. “I’d like to think we still have a little bit of time, but unfortunately ….” said Sears. State Division of Marine Fisheries shark scientist Gregory Skomal tagged three great whites June 18, his first day on the water this year.
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