Cape Cod... too dangerous or okay?

[AfterDark]

I have to echo Rich!
Also, I don’t know if I ever thanked you for taking a new again diver under your wing and teaching me about diving Newport.

Rich, thanks for adding the video! I had forgotten about that.

Erik

You are very welcome! I wished we had dived together more but life is what it is. That video was enjoyable! I recall Rich laughing at my DIY flag float, that is until it carried that anchor back to shore for him! LOL!

If there is one regret I have concerning diving is the lack of videos I have from my dives. The first 3 decades, the cost of underwater video / camera equipment was beyond my reach. Oh and not being able to dive the wrecks of Truk.

 

[Cebolla]

My feeling about seals and sharks is counter from what you hear. Seems to me seals are smarter than we think and if there out frolicking, there are minimal shark threats I notice when the water is calm, the seals tend to hug the shoreline. More turbulent water, the better

 

[AfterDark]

My feeling about seals and sharks is counter from what you hear. Seems to me seals are smarter than we think and if there out frolicking, there are minimal shark threats I notice when the water is calm, the seals tend to hug the shoreline. More turbulent water, the better

Well, that could very well be, except the seals are not infallible which is why pieces of them are sometimes found on the beach. They also can get away faster than we can. Turbulent water reduces visibility which is all we have to detect a shark's presence.

Good luck with your theory, I hope it works out for you. Safe diving.

 

[Cebolla]

Oh hell I don't dive in that water!

Sharks are ambush predators. If you see one it's normally too late, unless your on a boat or the beach. They like to get under their prey and attach from the bottom where they are well camouflaged from the top down, being darker on their backside. You sure may be right about turbulent water in that most attacks seem to be from mistaken identity. Maybe better for a shark to see humans and turn up their nose to a long pork meal.

 

[AfterDark]

Oh hell I don't dive in that water!

Sharks are ambush predators. If you see one it's normally too late, unless your on a boat or the beach. They like to get under their prey and attach from the bottom where they are well camouflaged from the top down, being darker on their backside. You sure may be right about turbulent water in that most attacks seem to be from mistaken identity. Maybe better for a shark to see humans and turn up their nose to a long pork meal.

Oh sorry, I thought you were planning on testing out that theory real world style.

Great Whites have the ability to "measure" the fat content of anything they bite. If the fat content isn't to their liking they let go and continue hunting. That presents a problem for a human if the GW is 15+ long. That's not mistaken identity, that is an exploratory bite.

If you change your mind and give it a try, hug the bottom!

 

[Cebolla]

Oh sorry, I thought you were planning on testing out that theory real world style.

Great Whites have the ability to "measure" the fat content of anything they bite. If the fat content isn't to their liking they let go and continue hunting. That presents a problem for a human if the GW is 15+ long. That's not mistaken identity, that is an exploratory bite.

If you change your mind and give it a try, hug the bottom!

are you calling me fat?

 

[AfterDark]

are you calling me fat?

I don't think there is a human with that high of a fat content, that would be able to dive. Just the amount of lead required would be prohibitive. So no, I'm not.

What I am saying is not every bite is mistaken identify, sometimes some thing can trigger their instinct to sample something they have not encountered before. They are wild animals after all. Just as wild as loins, tigers and bears oh my.

 

[Cebolla]

I don't think there is a human with that high of a fat content, that would be able to dive. Just the amount of lead required would be prohibitive. So no, I'm not.

What I am saying is not every bite is mistaken identify, sometimes some thing can trigger their instinct to sample something they have not encountered before. They are wild animals after all. Just as wild as loins, tigers and bears oh my.

On the north side of the Cape, right off Paines Creek, 4 feet of water. One of those trackers pinged a 12 footer right there in the early AM hours a few years ago.

 

[CT-Rich]

Always interesting to test your theories.... I am sure there have been Whites near shore where I dive in RI. The bubbles and the big metal tank reacting with seawater is probably plenty to convince a shark we are of no interest to them long before they get in visual range. I have only seen a single brief glimpse of a dog fish on a night dive in RI. I know they are there, but they have no interest in us.... If I do see one, I will probably head for shore along the bottom at the quickest rate possible.

The free diving spear fishermen are probably at a much higher risk than noisy scuba divers....

 

[AfterDark]

On the north side of the Cape, right off Paines Creek, 4 feet of water. One of those trackers pinged a 12 footer right there in the early AM hours a few years ago.

Oh, yeah they don't need deep water to operate. Fantastic critters. They'll probably be around long after humans are gone.