State Tags first Great White Shark this Year, July 29, 2010
Shark sightings prompt warning | CapeCodOnline.com
"After an hour of patiently tracking a 12- to 14-foot great white shark as it approached as close as 100 feet from shore, fisherman Bill Chaprales successfully tagged the first great white of the season yesterday afternoon.
Chaprales, working under contract with state shark researcher Greg Skomal, jabbed at the shark with a specially modified harpoon and attached a satellite tag just behind the animal's dorsal fin. The shark was off South Beach, a few miles south of the 1987 break, opposite Lighthouse Beach."
Device allows further study of Fearsome Species
Story in the Boston Globe:
Shark sightings prompt warning | CapeCodOnline.com
"After an hour of patiently tracking a 12- to 14-foot great white shark as it approached as close as 100 feet from shore, fisherman Bill Chaprales successfully tagged the first great white of the season yesterday afternoon.
Chaprales, working under contract with state shark researcher Greg Skomal, jabbed at the shark with a specially modified harpoon and attached a satellite tag just behind the animal's dorsal fin. The shark was off South Beach, a few miles south of the 1987 break, opposite Lighthouse Beach."
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