©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. County Executive Laura Curran said Long Island has never experienced so many beach issues due to shark sightings. Sharks eat seals, and with a resurgent seal population drawing sharks closer to shore, more humans are encountering and being attacked by sharks.While excited about the sonar technology his team is beta testing, Skomal worries it will give swimmers a false sense of security since a minority of the total shark population has been tagged with transmitters.“There’s no silver bullet, no one solution that’s going to be 100 percent effective,” Skomal said in an interview with Yahoo News. ... Newcomb Hollow Beach is where 26-year-old Arthur Medici, of Revere, died in a fatal shark attack in September 2018. Massachusetts State Police posted video of one of the huge sharks Monday. "On Saturday, in the early afternoon, the crew of MSP helicopter Air 4 observed two Great Whites about 50 yards off shore at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet," police said.Swimmers had already been ordered out of the water by the time the crew alerted local police because of an earlier sighting Saturday morning, police said.However, the additional confirmed sightings extended the order to stay out of the water. It is the first recorded fatal shark attack in Maine and follows two years after a Revere man was killed by a shark while boogie boarding at a Wellfleet beach in Massachusetts. “But maybe we didn’t because it wasn’t a safe thing to do.”Brian Carlstrom, the superintendent of Cape Cod National Seashore, agreed with that musing. In the 1850s, Henry David Thoreau wrote often about the sharks and seals he saw off the Massachusetts coast. Public horror at the Northeast’s shark resurgence crested after 26-year-old Arthur Medici was killed while bodysurfing in Wellfleet, Mass., in 2018 as throngs of beachgoers looked on. White sharks prey on seals, but can also attack humans. “We go there to enjoy it. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. It’s their home.” A white shark killed a woman last Monday in Maine, and a man in Cape Cod in 2018, though shark attacks are rare in both states.

A twenty-six year old man was boogie boarding when he was bitten, he died of his injuries at a local hospital. Seal populations have multiplied exponentially in the years since the act, and marine scientists say levels are now so high that they are making a discernible difference in coastline shark activity since seals are among their favorite prey. The attack happened on a stretch of the Cape Cod National Seashore. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed Two great white sharks were spotted off the coast of Cape CodA shark warning is seen Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet in the summer of 2018The shark sightings extended an order to stay out of the water in the area Skomal noted that California State University, Long Beach has a few of the detection systems placed along the West Coast, where great white shark populations are also rebounding.Skomal said the estimated 250,000 seals now swimming in the Northeastern U.S. are a 25-fold increase from a low in the 1980s, when seal populations were estimated at just 10,000 animals.
A man in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, has died after he was bitten by a shark around noon local time on Saturday.The man, identified as 26-year-old Arthur Medici of Revere, was seen boogie-boarding about 30 yards off the beach when the attack occurred, according to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office.Medici’s death is said to be the first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts since 1936.The death follows an Aug. 15 attack on 61-year-old William Lytton, who was swimming off Long Nook Beach in Truro, also on Cape Cod. Cape Cod is a popular feeding ground for migrating great white sharks, which prey on seals. “Now they’re back. Public horror at the Northeast’s shark resurgence crested after 26-year-old Arthur Medici was killed while bodysurfing in Wellfleet, Mass., in 2018 as throngs of beachgoers looked on. But he said killing seals off, as some have suggested, is not a viable solution to the uptick in shark attacks.“There weren’t sharks hunting close to shore [until recently] because the seals weren’t there, not in large numbers, so if you want to go back to that stage in time, think of the number of animals you’d have to remove,” Skomal said. It was the first deadly shark attack in Massachusetts in more than 80 years, reports CBS News' Nikki Batiste. All rights reserved. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. The Massachusetts State Police Air Wing provides an important service every summer in helping patrol the waters off Cape Cod beaches for Great White sharks in the vicinity of swimmers. TWO huge great white sharks were spotted near swimmers off the coast of Cape Cod, just days after a woman was killed while swimming in the ocean in Maine. The department said it appeared to be 10 feet long. Share ... that killed a woman in Maine earlier this week was a great white shark.

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