Multiple lifeless seals with shark bites washed up alongside Cape Cod within the final couple of days, whereas a number of nice whites had been noticed near shore in the course of the peak of shark season.
Also, Wellfleet lifeguards over the weekend helped out a big fish that’s usually confused with nice white sharks — after an ocean sunfish ended up very near shore at Newcomb Hollow Beach.
While nearly all of the good white shark motion is alongside the Outer Cape, the lifeless seals with shark bites had been present in Cape spots away from the favored outer seashores.
One of the seals washed up in Truro’s Pamet Harbor off of Cape Cod Bay, and one other seal was discovered close to Chatham’s Hardings Beach off of the Nantucket Sound.
“Dead seal washed up near Pamet Harbor jetty with shark bites,” reads the white shark sighting on Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app on Monday.
“Deceased seal with shark bite,” reads the Chatham report on the Sharktivity app.
August is now the busiest month for shark exercise alongside the Cape, because the apex predators hunt for seals near shore. Last yr, August had essentially the most shark detections at receivers, based on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Logbook. There had been 66,097 detections of tagged sharks in August final yr, adopted by September in second place with 47,177 detections.
Other shark sightings from the weekend included an amazing white noticed 20 yards from shore off of Nauset Beach in Orleans, and a shark seen off the shoreline north of Truro’s Head of the Meadow Beach.
Meanwhile in Wellfleet over the weekend, a big fish led to a response from lifeguards. A Mola mola, often known as an ocean sunfish, acquired very near shore at Newcomb Hollow Beach.
“Even our amazing lifeguards wouldn’t be able to rescue an 1,000+ pound animal if it ended up on the beach, so a few of our guards and junior guards paddled out to try to create a soft barrier between the Mola mola and the shoreline,” Wellfleet Lifeguards wrote.
“We hoped this guy or gal would take the hint that the waves weren’t quite good enough for body surfing today and swim out to sea,” the lifeguards added. “Luckily, that’s exactly what happened. We were glad to see it on its way to deeper, less treacherous waters!”
People usually confuse ocean sunfish for excellent whites once they spot the fin from a distance. But the Mola mola fin up shut appears fairly totally different from a shark fin, the lifeguards stated.
“If you ever see a fin at our beaches, come ask the lifeguards about it,” the Wellfleet Lifeguards wrote. “Chances are we’ve already seen it, know what kind of animal it belongs to, and if it was a shark fin we’d have already gotten you out of the water.”
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