found a dead shark

[MSilvia]

the teath were small with a long thin point ....

That sounds like a porbeagle or mako to me, and a porbeagle is more likely.

http://www.newenglandsharks.com/_derived/porbeagl.htm_txt_porb.teeth_photo.gif

Also, I just read a description of porbeagles as looking "like fat makos", so Mark might have nailed it there.

 

[Chebby]

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/Porbeagle/Porbeagle.html

Oh my God, this thing is a tiny Great White shark! This is the neatest thing I ever saw since somebody told me about Makos!

 

[MSilvia]

Oh my God, this thing is a tiny Great White shark!

Well... it's a relative of the great white, but it's a very different animal in many respects. Perhaps most importantly... they have different dietary habits.

 

[jchaplain]

I was diving with jchaplain and another guy (cant remember his name) last weekend and we found a dead shark .. about 3 feet long .... not a dog shark ...
his friend with the dig cam got a good pic of it ...
gray on top .. white on the under side and the nose was a point. this was in boston harbor .. we were diving some rocks
with a very small WWII Army bunker on the top of it.

Gabe

Gabe,
The island was Outer Brewster Island..has an old cement army barracks on top of it.
I'm fairly sure that the shark was just a dogfish...( also called sandshark.)..the water in the outer harbor is full of them. Many fishermen kill them as soon as they catch them so they can get their fishing rig back without getting bit or snagged by that barb they have on the tail.

I was fishing this Monday about 5 miles off Nantasket and caught nothing but dogfish. At one point I pulled up two dogfish at a time and a third followed the bait and the other two hooked dogfish to the surface! They suck...( I know, not very eco system polite of me,) but I was after some nice cod, but didn't catch any.

The other guy we dove with was Dave Gintz...an excellent guy to dive with!

John C.

 

[alemaozinho]

I was diving with jchaplain and another guy (cant remember his name) last weekend and we found a dead shark .. about 3 feet long .... not a dog shark ...
his friend with the dig cam got a good pic of it ...
gray on top .. white on the under side and the nose was a point. this was in boston harbor .. we were diving some rocks
with a very small WWII Army bunker on the top of it.

Gabe

did you eat it????

 

[ScubaNorth]

did you eat it????

Why would someone eat an Army Barracks?

 

[MSilvia]

We don't typically eat them around here, but I hear they make an excellent fish & chips.

(the dogfish that is... army barracks are nothing but gristle)

 

[DavidInNH]

I was diving with jchaplain and another guy (cant remember his name) last weekend and we found a dead shark .. about 3 feet long .... not a dog shark ...
his friend with the dig cam got a good pic of it ...
gray on top .. white on the under side and the nose was a point. this was in boston harbor .. we were diving some rocks
with a very small WWII Army bunker on the top of it.

Gabe

Here's the picture that Gabe was talking about. (And my name is "Dave", since he forgot!)

 

[MASS-Diver]

Looks like it could be a sand tiger.