Great White

[UNCFISH]

very possible. They've docked the boat in stamford before, based on donations from Ray Dalio and others. i got a tour of the boat while it was there, and my 2 year old son at the time got to hold the hook that caught Mary Lee. The hook was almost as big as him!

Could be a fundraising technique for sure.

 

[UNCFISH]

Back of the napkin guess is that just off the south shore on LI (say 2 miles) straight up to Greenwich (say 1 mile off) is maybe 25-30 miles?? Is that range an acceptable margin of error for one of those GPS trackers?

it depends how long the tracker is above the water's surface and it depends on how many satellites pick it up. if it was up for a short time and only pinged one satellite, who knows how accurate it would be

 

[Capt13]

I have another hypothesis instead of the bad ping, it's OCEARCH is trying to raise cash so they put Cabot somewhere that nobody would expect, e.g. Western LI Sound, off of a very well-to-do area. On their Twitter page they've commented and thanked folks for the huge donation wave since yesterday.

Just saying, but it's often a tool in the shed of fund raising groups...

Chris Fischer is brilliant individual .......I had the same thoughts about not only raising funds, but raising awareness as well. If those were the motives, he is taking a huge risk. If it comes out that this was staged, his credibility and the organizations credibility would be ruined. I would like to believe it was an anomaly.

It has gotten a crazy amount of national attention, though.

 

[UNCFISH]

I’m guessing it was both. A bad ping, which in the past they advertised as a potential bad ping. But this time they decided to just roll with the opportunity. Fish is probably swimming off of Jones beach.

 

[BennyV]

Here’s to swimming with bow legged women!

 

[dsedy]

Probably

a bad ping unless she swam straight from Greenwich across LI itself.

 

[dsedy]

 

[cany]

ProbablyView attachment 5848 a bad ping unless she swam straight from Greenwich across LI itself.

She went under LI

 

[UNCFISH]

they just connect the last pings. they only ping when the fin goes above the water for 90 seconds or so. obviously they are not traveling with their fin above the water constantly, and obviously they are not going over or under land.

 

[UNCFISH]

Here's the scoop:

The shark APPARENTLY was in Greenwich Cove at 8:43am yesterday, which was almost near dead low tide, and it was in a spot that is less than a foot deep at that time (impossible). of course the pings could have been off by a few miles or something.

THEN, the fish pinged at 10:49 in the larger/deeper Greenwich harbor area, behind little captain island. more plausible, i suppose.

THEN, the fish hightailed it to Great South Bay by 8:07 PM. assuming it went down towards NYC, down the east river, out the harbor, into Jones Inlet, navigated the islands inside Hempstead Bay, and then through into Great South Bay (the shortest possible route), he swam 84 miles in 9 hours and 18 minutes or an average of 9 miles an hour. certainly not out of the realm of possibility, if it was an expert navigator. However, when googling the average swim speed of a GWS, it is noted as a cruise speed of 5 mph, but typically more like 1.5mph. so this guy was on a MISSION, if he swam 84 miles in 9 hours. plus he had to navigate some seriously tight spaces and travel down the east river of all places.

THEN, it pinged at 8:47 offshore of westhampton, a 42 mile difference in 40 minutes. AKA 63 mph to get from Great South Bay to where it next pinged.

So I'd venture to guess this guy was just cruising south shore of long island the entire time and the ping accuracy is way off and he never ever entered Long Island Sound or great south bay.

 

[Avenger]

Time for me to go shark fishing!

 

[Matts]

Yes, reject everything ever said by a scientist and come up with a new conspiracy theory. Maybe this is more proof that the Earth is flat!
More likely Cabot was put-off by the crazy Conn. real estate prices and went to the Bronx, looking for something cheaper; didn't realize Cape Cod tough is not the same thing as Bronx tough; got into trouble; and is now wandering the South Shore without his shoes and coat.

Nevertheless, I will say he could not have traveled that far that quickly, so something must be off in the tracker.

 

[george]

In today’s newsday:

Just in time for the unofficial first weekend of summer, a great white shark is swimming in the waters off Long Island.

The nearly 10-foot-long shark was first detected Monday in the western end of the Long Island Sound, off Greenwich, Connecticut, according to OCEARCH, which electronically tags and tracks sharks. Later Monday the shark pinged in the Atlantic Ocean off the Hamptons, according to OCEARCH’s website.

The founding chairman of OCEARCH, Chris Fischer, told The Associated Press that while great whites in the Sound are not unheard of, “we were quite surprised to see this one so far to the west.” The shark, named Cabot after explorer John Cabot, was probably after bait fish, he said.

Cabot became an overnight sensation following a bunch of tweets at @GWSharkCabot — “I heard sending a ping from the Long Island Sound had never been done before by a white shark . . . so naturally I had to visit and send one off. Hello Greenwich how are you today?!” read one tweet Monday.

The great white, it seems, then beat the traffic and headed out east.

On Tuesday, the shark pinged off the Hamptons, in the waters of the New York Bight. The Bight, which stretches from Cape May, New Jersey, to Montauk, has been found to be a nursing area for Atlantic Ocean great whites.

According to past tracks, Cabot has been spotted in recent months from the Carolinas to near Nova Scotia. Scientists and marine biologists say great whites can travel in the range of 100 to 150 miles per day.

Of course, anyone who’s ever seen “Jaws” may know something about the history, and legends, of great white sharks and the waters surrounding Long Island — the legendary fictional shark-hunter Quint, and the late, real-life, legendary Long Island shark hunter Frank Mundus, for example.

On Tuesday, the senior aquarist at the Long Island Aquarium, Jeff McCarthy, 43, told Newsday that swimmers and boaters shouldn’t necessarily fear the presence of a great white like Cabot in any of the waters off Long Island.

While there’s been reported great white attacks on swimmers and surfers off Australia and coastal California, the species tends to keep to deeper, offshore waters here in the Atlantic.

“This is more of a transitory place,” McCarthy said. “They show up, might surface for food.”

McCarthy said he believes Cabot is simply at an age where he’s exploratory, just like any other teen.

“This is some type of anomaly,” McCarthy said. “This shark was like, ‘What’s in here?’ I think he was just being curious.”

 

[BennyV]

ProbablyView attachment 5848 a bad ping unless she swam straight from Greenwich across LI itself.

Probably took the ferry then a greyhound bus.