It’s insane. I don’t know how deep the water is there but it wasn’t that far from shore. Apparently she died before EMS got there. I wonder what the extent of her injuries were. In the press conference today they said the recovered a tooth fragment which they used to confirm it was a Great White.
I know there have been sightings in Maine but I always think of Cape Cod as being more dangerous. I wouldn’t swim too far from a beach anyway.
Typically when a person dies from a white shark attack it’s pure blood loss. Being in the salt water makes things worse I believe. She was probably dead by the time the kayakers got her to shore- probably missing a lot of her leg too. That’s typically what gets hit. Sucks for us because we have our femoral there. All the attacks on the cape have been legs. The two major incidents involved boogie boarding by seals, so they were entirely preventable as callous as that may sound.
People think of Great Whites as these warm water, deep ocean killers but they honestly prefer temperate coastal waters. I’m pretty sure they go all the way up to PEI. Wherever they can find seals- that basically dictates where they go. Since the seals live on shore you can only imagine where the sharks hang around. You can see them attack seals from the beach here on the cape
On the cape our seal population has become outrageous and that’s why the shark sightings are a multiple-times-a-day occurrence now. It will be this way until Octoberish. Nature has a funny way of balancing things out- the fishermen love the sharks because the seals have been pillaging their fisheries and I still think they are protected iirc. Something very interesting is that orcas are starting to make their way to the cape to take part in the action. So it looks like whatever business gets lost in terms of people looking to escape to the beach will get made up for in ecotourism revenue because it’s getting cool AF over here
It’s not just outer cape anymore either- sandy neck has shark sightings now
Also- what Lonnie said about kayaks. Just be aware of what’s around you and you’ll be ok. Plus, the worst that happens is you make history and people talk about you on hockey message boards in off topic threads (because you got mauled)
