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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2011 8:09 am 
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Buddies out mackerel fishing today came upon a giant great white shark like they’ve never seen before “bumping” and “nudging” a dead whale and then circling their boat off Martha’s Vineyard.

The line from the seminal shark flick "Jaws" quickly came to mind for the crew -- "We’re gonna need a bigger boat."

The monster of the sea was “20 feet” long, said captain Jeff Lynch of Chilmark. “To see something that big was crazy. It was as big as my boat.”


The shark had zeroed in on a dead minke whale that was tangled in lobster gear and died. The shark, he said, kept at the whale but never chomped down —possibly sensing it was long dead.

“I was very surprised to see it,” Lynch told the Herald.

“I’ve never seen anything that big,” said fishing buddy Will Farrissey. “The first thing that went through my head is ‘I don’t want to sink now.’

“We waited for it to eat the whale, but it kept circling, nudging and bumping the whale,” Farrissey told the Herald today. “The girth on it was impressive.”

The crew left Menemsha Harbor at 6 a.m. in a 23-foot boat Sea Ox and headed out to sea about a mile off Gay Head. The shark, Lynch and Farrissey said, passed by dwarfing the center console skiff.

That’s when the 28-year-old Lynch started snapping photos with his cell phone after the Coast Guard asked him to record the amazing encounter. Lunch forwarded those images to state shark experts and the Herald.

State environmental officials said they confirm this is the first sighting of a great white this season. Reginald Zimmerman, of the state Energy and Environmental Affairs office, said the shark was pegged at more than 17 feet. “It could have been 20 feet,” he added. The shark left the area by about 11:30 a.m.

The whale was then towed to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in nearby Woods Hole where biologist will examine the minke and perform a necropsy, or post-mortem examination.


Wow....didn't know I only had to go to Martha's Vineyard for Great White Shark encounters.

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Didn't Jaws take place in MA?

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Set on fictional Amity Island, filmed in part on Martha's Vineyard.

Very cool stuff.

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I have never watched Jaws.. I sorta thought great whites were in Africa and Australia.

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Great white sharks live in almost all coastal and offshore waters which have water temperature between 12 and 24 °C (54 and 75 °F), with greater concentrations in the United States (Atlantic Northeast and California), South Africa, Japan, Australia (especially New South Wales and South Australia), New Zealand, Chile, and the Mediterranean. One of the densest known populations is found around Dyer Island, South Africa where much shark research is conducted.

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Hawaii has a decent seasonal population too IIRC.

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There are Great Whites off the coast of San Francisco.

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Vindicarre wrote:
There are Great Whites off the coast of San Francisco.

Yeah, remember Farallon networking stuff? Named for the Farallon Islands, I believe, where all the Great Whites are.

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I have never watched Jaws.. I sorta thought great whites were in Africa and Australia.

Sheesh, feeling old again, thanks. I saw when it originally came out in theaters.

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Sheesh, feeling old again, thanks. I saw when it originally came out in theaters.


Jaws and and the original Star Wars might be the last movie theater tickets I didn't regret buying


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Serienya wrote:
Didn't Jaws take place in MA?


The leftovers from the shark animatronics are still in the water off the one pier. You can see them at low tide. Was up there a few years back looking at it. Also epic Bluefish are in those waters.

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