Sharks are a big topic on the Cape Cod and the Islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. A trip to a Vineyard beach might bring you to a site of a Jaws shoot. And, the state routinely monitors sharks spotted off Chatham and elsewhere on the Cape.
Tonight University of Rhode Island biologist Brad Wetherbee will give a talk on sharks at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
From Cape Cod Online. Wetherbee "has tagged well over 1,000 sharks of varying species worldwide in 25 years of work.
His favorite is the tiger shark.
“In (the movie) “Jaws,” when you see them cut open the shark and pull out various things like license plates, that’s the tiger shark. They are very indiscriminate eaters," said Wetherbee, who will speak tonight at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on the movements and migrations of sharks in the western Atlantic.
Although their appearances in Cape waters are relatively rare, tiger sharks can be found worldwide in temperate to tropical waters. Their range extends from the Cape in summer down into the Gulf of Mexico.
They are also maneaters, second only to the great white in attacks on humans".