Shark in the Hole
Mar 20th, 2005 by Dave
Not new news for folks on the Cape but I just now found photos and videos on a Fisheries website of a great white shark that got ’stuck’ in a salt pond on Naushon Island from 9/21/04 through 10/6/04 : here are the videos of the Great White in a pond in Naushon
Quite a sight to see a 1 ton 17 foot behemoth known man-eater swimming around in shallow waters. Eerie how it can disappear below the surface - one video in particular - and you’d never know it was there except for the slight swirling of waters. I’m 1/8th of a ton so I’d be a mouthful for this beast - equivalent to me eating a 30 lb. burger - except it is designed for eating and it can take on much bigger prey such as whales.
Trivia note - if you watched the first Jaws movie carefully you may have noticed a sign reading ‘Ferry to Woods Hole’, a town just across the ‘Hole‘ from Naushon. But don’t let that scare you off the Cape - the last known shark attack was in 1936 and nowadays they seem to prefer Floridians. But there is plenty of food swimming around the area (that would include us); that’s why the Marine Biological Laboratory and the National Marine Fisheries Service were situated nearby in Woods Hole. I remember trolling through the Hole in a Boston Whaler with the cousins decades ago when we caught something that we fought to bring in. Before we got it in, the line went loose and we thought we had lost our catch; but we pulled in just the head of a good sized fish; something else *BIG* had poached our catch.