The first day of Cape Cod’s busiest shark month was fairly energetic, as a number of nice white shark alerts and sightings have been reported near shore.
Around 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, a fantastic white was noticed inside 100 toes from the Orleans’ shoreline.
“Circling 50-100 feet from shore. In front of Callanan’s pass,” reads the shark alert on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app.
Shark alerts on the Sharktivity app are despatched out when a white shark sighting is confirmed near a public seashore. A notification goes out with every alert.
Another shark alert was issued for Nauset Beach in Orleans Tuesday afternoon.
“!! SHARK ALERT !! White shark ~500 ft off Nauset Beach,” tweeted MA Sharks, which is run by native shark researcher John Chisholm, who confirms shark sightings for the Sharktivity app.
August has been the busiest month for shark exercise alongside the Cape lately.
Last 12 months, August had essentially the most shark detections at receivers, in line with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Logbook. There have been 66,097 detections of tagged sharks in August final 12 months, adopted by September in second place with 47,177 detections.
Atlantic Ocean nice white sharks don’t simply hang around alongside the Cape throughout the summer season. One tagged shark named Big Daddy has been shortly migrating north in latest days.
“Big Daddy was detected on a real-time receiver off of Maine yesterday,” the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy tweeted on Tuesday. “He was detected on a real-time receiver in Massachusetts on 7/28! It’s incredible how far a shark can swim in a few days! Download Sharktivity to keep up with real-time detections and sightings.”
Meanwhile, shark researchers have been busy out on the water. Last week, shark biologist Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries — working with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy — tagged three white sharks.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”