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Sunday, April 12, 2020

So what happened with the sharks?

Back in February, when I wasn't posting much but still hoped to, I saved this story about great white sharks gathering near the North Carolina-South Carolina line:
The clustering of great white sharks off the Carolinas coast is growing more pronounced and mysterious, based on satellite tracking data shared Saturday on social media.
Eight tagged great white sharks are now practically on top of each other along the border of North and South Carolina — and they represent the only sharks currently tracking along the East Coast, according to a map posted on Facebook by OCEARCH.
So my question is, what happened? I didn't read any stories about the massive attack by great whites on swimmers off Calabash, N.C. I also didn't read any stories about the massive attack by great whites on swimmers off Myrtle Beach or Murrells Inlet, S.C. So what gives?


Yeah, might just be the usual hype about sharks. According to the Charleston, S.C., paper in March:
 As far as the recent “massing” of them: The half-dozen or so pings have sounded over a period of more than a month and across a stretch of several hundred miles of ocean and as far as 50 miles out to sea. The closest ping to the South Carolina coast, on Feb. 8, was 3 miles offshore of Garden City, according to Ocearch, the nonprofit organization tracking sharks with GPS transmitters.
I guess the production of "Jaws 5: Southern Vacation Boogaloo" is on hold.


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