just off Island Beach State Park. Picture from when she was tagged.
16 feet, 3500 lbs
http://www.ocearch.org/tracker/
16 feet, 3500 lbs
http://www.ocearch.org/tracker/
Mary Lee is visiting
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She's back!! After visiting the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays she's cruising Townsends Inlet
She must have heard the Bennies are here
Exactly my thought too. I also remember seeing seals occasionally when I was Striper fishing, but I think it was closer to December
Coincidentally I just finished reading Close To Shore about the shark attacks along the New Jersey coast in 1916. A really great read.
http://www.amazon.com/Close-Shore-Terrifying-Shark-Attacks/dp/0767904141
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zeYrSlhVJU8I.k--zaGIdSNgU&hl=en
http://www.amazon.com/Close-Shore-Terrifying-Shark-Attacks/dp/0767904141
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zeYrSlhVJU8I.k--zaGIdSNgU&hl=en
A really excellent book, I love how the author takes you through the events, it doesn't read like a history book at all.
I have had an interest and curiosity about that event for many many years now. I remember my dad telling me about it when I was young. I grew up not too far away from Matawan. When that book came out I met the author and he signed the book for me and we discussed it a bit. The book was very good. Another book, "12 days of Terror" that came out about the same time is a bit more analytical and investigative. If you liked close to shore you should read 12 days of terror for a slightly different perspective. All in all it was just a million in one event...a perfect storm that we will probably never quite understand.
Anyway, thanks for posting this 46er...I'll be cancelling my ocean kayaking plans this weekend.
Anyway, thanks for posting this 46er...I'll be cancelling my ocean kayaking plans this weekend.
I also read that book years ago. I might have to look for it and read it over again.
The one ping in the Barnegat Bay is located in Double Creek Channel. In the late 70's and early 80's I spent a lot of time in that area with my family. Even claming along the sides of it. It's crazy to think a shark of that size could be cruising through it.
The one ping in the Barnegat Bay is located in Double Creek Channel. In the late 70's and early 80's I spent a lot of time in that area with my family. Even claming along the sides of it. It's crazy to think a shark of that size could be cruising through it.
With all the whales, blues and stripers feeding on the massive bunker schools, she probably heard the dinner bell ringing and went looking for a whale dinner
Dental impressions from a carcass that washed up a few years back;
