ecoli and sharks - AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH

[time4me]

Well, I have two trips coming up in the next few weeks. The first is a week long trip back to Cape Cod, where I have a brand new Excalibur II waiting for me to pick up. My plan was to spend as much time in the water as possible while there, but this morning on the news I see that the Chatham beaches are closed due to great white shark sightings. Hopefully they'll reopen the beaches by next weekend when I get there. Of course even if they do, I will be a bit nervouse wading around chest deep knowing those bad boys might be lurking about.

My second trip is back to Michigan for my 25 year high school reunion. I was hoping to hit the beach (a bay off of one of the great lakes) near where I grew up for a whole morning while there. But when I researched the beach online, I saw that the beach had just been closed to swimmers due to ecoli. Yeah, I don't think I'll be going anywhere near that water. I'll take my chances with the sharks on Cape Cod thank you very much!

I do hope to turf hunt a house in Michigan that had been my grandma's house, and the house my mom grew up in. My mom talked with the owner this past summer, who bought the house from my grandma, and he said I could definitely come out to detect the yard.


Happy Hunting,

Jim

 

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[mumszie]

Well here is where you need to make lemonade out of those "lemons". When you do get to hunt those places..... find some good stuff. Good luck!

 

[FISHEYE]

Dont worry the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries has tagged two great white sharks off Cape Cod. The first tagging Saturday marked the first time a great white shark had been successfully tagged in the Atlantic Ocean, the division said in a statement. A second shark was tagged Saturday afternoon, officials said.

The taggings took place in the waters near Chatham, Massachusetts, two days after Greg Skomal, shark expert for the Division of Marine Fisheries, reported as many as five large sharks were seen near Monomoy Island, a National Wildlife Refuge off the southern elbow of Cape Cod. The island is about a mile away from Chatham's Lighthouse Beach, a public swimming area.

Chatham's beaches were closed to swimmers after the sightings, Skomal said. CNN affiliate WCVB reported that all of Chatham's east-facing beaches were closed after three sharks came within 75 yards of the coastline.

The beaches will be off-limits to swimmers until the middle of the week, officials told WCVB.
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After the sightings, Skomal and other biologists set out to identify the species, the division statement said. Skomal identified a great white shark on Friday, and then the two were tagged Saturday.

"The tags, which use satellite-based technology to record where a shark travels, allow scientists to better understand migratory patterns," the division statement said.

Great white sharks are relatively rare in New England, the division statement said, but have been seen feeding near seal colonies.

As for the ecoli outbreak in the water.Just wear a drysuit for protection.