Late-Summer Arrival To Cape Cod Beaches: Sharks!
After a quiet summer, the sharks are taking their revenge: The normally bucolic beaches of Cape Cod have been cruised by up to 20 sharks looking for a delicious seal dinner and scaring the living daylights out of the last summer's swimmers.
There has not been a fatal, unprovoked shark attack in U.S. waters since last year, and no attacks recorded this year in Massachusetts at all. But a seal colony in the town of Chatham, Mass. has caused the city to close their beaches indefinitely since Labor Day because great whites can't resist those baby seals—and both species are protected, so they can't be moved from their habitats anyway.
We're pretty sure the sharks are just biding their time, waiting for an opportunity to recreate last year's Killer Beaches scares around the world. But we love Chatham's new plan for taking advantage of these tourist-frighting visitors: Bill themselves as the "JAWS" reality tour! According to the Cape Cod Times, scientists and rubberneckers alike are getting as close to the beaches as possible in order to spot one of the visiting sharks. Don't forget the beers and your book of old sea chanteys.
Related Stories:
· Shark fear factor for Cape tourism [Cape Cod Times]
· Cage-Free Swimming With Sharks [Jaunted]
· Revenge Travel: Man Attacks Shark [Jaunted]
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