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DixieOutLawSHRKR · 2015-08-29T14:49:08Z

HI GUYS...... Anybody catch the DISCOVERY CHANNEL "SHARK SCHWEEKEND" ? They had one show called "SHARK TREK", researchers tagged Great Whites off CAPE COD , with Acoustic tagging equipt. then waited to see how, when, & where the GWS travelled .............when the WHITE SHARKS passed near these Acoustic Bouys, thier info was recorded , and guess what? The GREAT WHITES are showing up off FLORIDA Beaches , PALM BEACH, being just ONE, Great Whites called " BETSY" & "KATHRYN" {Famous}are two , a Spear fisherman was attacked 70 mi. North of PALM BEACH by an aggressive GWS , who bumped this diver from behind , & kept coming back ,everytime being struck, by the diver untill he got clear The Diver said this GWS kept coming back ,dropping it's fins & taking aggressive pose, What these Researchers believe is that these huge Great Whites are actually hunting the BLACK TIP Sharks during thier gathering / Migrationswhen Cape Cod gets too cold ...........usually eating GREY SEALS the researchers used a "ROBOT SUB" to follow Great Whites hunting,and they ate Whales, Porpises, Dolphins, & BlackTip sharks... -to-shore/ MORE TO FOLLOW........................ Researchers saying that the Jacksonville area is a gathering/ holding point for some of the Great Whites.......then they travel to different areas , while some go no further South ! News Channel 8 checked on the Great Whites tracked by OCEARCH who have pinged near the Tampa Bay area. In April, 1,400-pound Betsy pinged just outside of St. Petersburg. Betsy last pinged near Louisiana. Katharine, meanwhile, is off the coast of North Carolina. In May, the 14’2” shark pinged off Florida’s east coast. The 2,300-pound shark frequently visits waters near Florida. In July 2014 she made her way close to both Sarasota and Tampa. Sharks ping when they surface. To track Betsy, Katharine, Lydia and the other Great Whites tagged by OCEARCH , here's OCEARCH LINK BELOW:GREG SKOMAL is a senior biologist with Massachusetts’s Division of Marine Fisheries who periodically moonlights as a TV biologist for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. It’s late March and he has come to Fernandina Beach, Fla., with a boat and crew of nine production hands. They’re shooting parts of an hour-long program titled “Shark Trek” for Shark Week 2015, the 28th edition of the seemingly indestructible franchise. Skomal is searching for evidence to support his hypothesis that great white sharks are returning in force to their old Eastern Seaboard stomping grounds, although “chomping grounds” would be more in keeping with the high-octane spirit of Shark Week. Discovery Channel, whose headquarters are in Silver Spring, likes to serve its science with a side helping of histrionics; witness past Shark Week programs such as “Great White Serial Killer,” “Teeth of Death” and “Blood in the Water.” But in the past few years some producers yielded to temptation (or ratings pressure) and went several steps further. They presented phony shark attacks as real. They played the Godzilla card, suggesting prehistoric monster sharks still roam the seas. A public backlash ensued. Discovery executives claim to have seen the error of those ways. It's up to VIEWER OPINION to decide if Discovery Channel cleaned up it' act or not in the just past "SHARK WEEK" {?} For the record, the odds of someone in the United States getting bitten by a shark are about 11.5 million to 1, according to statistics compiled by employees of the Florida Museum of Natural History, repository of the International Shark Attack File. You also are more apt to be killed by a cow, lightning bolt, power tool and court-ordered execution than by a shark. Of course, it doesn’t take a programming genius to know that millions of people aren’t going to tune in for Cow Week. Skomal and the Shark Week team have dropped anchor roughly a half-mile off Fernandina Beach, which sits smack on the Georgia border. For eons great whites regularly plied the ocean from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. They particularly enjoyed dining on gray seals, a denizen of the rocky New England-to-Mid-Atlantic coastline that by the 1950s had been all but wiped out by hunters. White sharks dwindled, too. Thanks to the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the gray seal population has substantially recovered in the past decade. And guess who Skomal believes is back in town? “The cafe, in essence, had opened, and the top predator of seals arrived,” he says. In August he tagged 18 great white sharks when the crew was filming a “Shark Trek” segment at Cape Cod’s Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge. In the succeeding months, he tracked satellite and acoustic signals as far as South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida — well beyond the range of those chubby gray seals they love to munch on. Tagging signals can’t pinpoint locations, however. Skomal’s educated guess is that lots of great white sharks are lurking around the inlets and estuaries...

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