Did anyone see?!?!?!

I saw seals 2 seperate days at 38th street. I see them a lot down by the inlet but rarely up the beach, kinda cool.

 

I saw one on Assateague around this time last year...I was talking to the ranger and he said it happens fairly often, though they've been seeing more... wonder if any bigger critters will follow them...

 

definitely, where there are seals, there are whites....I know they are out there, I have a friend who went out on a charter last year and he saw a 15 foot Great White sitting there chilling at the surface a mile out from IRI....if they are a mile out I'm sure they'll take a swim in close to shore if there's seal's...just my gut instinct.

 

there was a big tiger caught off assisteague last year too

 

Saw a juvenile seal a few months ago come right up onto the beach in Monmouth Beach. Looked good... just checking out the scene. There's also a "local" who hangs out at the Cove in SH. Sometimes he'll come right into the lineup...

 

Question--How many reported shark attacks have there been in OCMD/DEL in recorded history?

 

Look at these odds of death.....

Lightning 1 in 79,746
Shark attack 1 in 3,748,067

 

I had a "run-in" with him. Scared the living **** out of me and burned me on good one..

 

I actually did some research on Assateague's history for a masters thesis, didn't find a single account of a shark attack. though there were some oral histories about kids throwing chum off a pier from one of the villages on the island to watch the sharks swim up and eat it. that was in the 1930's though.

 

Look at these odds of death.....

Lightning 1 in 79,746
Shark attack 1 in 3,748,067

sucks to be that 1, i wouldnt believe those stats

 

well those are for the general public, I think a surfer's odds are considerably higher....though still remote especially in the Delmarva region

 

I just saw a seal or otter sunday when i was out

 

i was out at midtown ocmd yesterday and one popped its head up about 50 yds out. its the 4th or 5th time seein them

 

There is a seal that I see in squan every now and then usually on the super small days when no one is out and I'm messing around on my log. Probably the same one from the long branch area...he's real curious and gets pretty close.

 

Better watch out, seems like we're due, according to the stats.

 

i saw two white sharks out last yearwhen i went out fishing, given it was maybe 50-65miles out. we knew they were whites becuase they swam 10feet from the boat, and nothing else could have been that big.....fins, body, and headshape were also signs that they were whites

 

This is correct, I have looked at shark data tons of times, and the DELMARVA area is the only area on the whole eastern seaboard that has never had a large attack reported.. I have tried to figure out why for years... But there is really no data that shows why...

The shark capital of the east coast, aside from Central FL, is the crystal coast in NC. It has many more big boys than the OBX does....

Who knows why they dont like the taste of the mid atlantic.... Maybe less people in the water all year as opposed to the SE where water temps and air is much warmer all year...

And jersey has had some run ins, but they have a TON more people out in the water all year that MD DE does...Who knows...

What I will say, is that on the west coast, in SoCal, the last few fatal white shark attacks have all fallen within about 15 days of each other. Different years, but they have all been in mid to late APRIL... No one out of all the years I have been out here has ever put 2 and 2 together and reported that all these fatalities happened in the same seasons, same months and almost the exact same DAYS, just a few years apart... So with that being said, I honestly avoid surfing the cliffs and really far spots during march... It may do nothing, but FOR SURE, I am watching the water and my as$ a lot closer in April... FYI

Ive been told that the abundance of fish is SUPER low in April compared to other months, which in turn makes the sharks much more curious about food and where to get it.