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You are wrong about the lack of sharks. Martha's Vineyard and the cape have always had many large sharks including whites, makos and blues, it is part of the white shark breeding range as well. But big sharks don't typically come in shore and those that do are typically following the gray seals (whose numbers are exploding btw).
Just being on the other side of the cape is not some magical barrier. Additionally mackerel sharks have a countercurrent system which makes them functionally warm blooded so cold water is not the issue it would be outside the gulf stream that it would be for other sharks.
Yes, I remember sharks off Nauset Beach. Mostly they are out in the really deep water where people are not in wading or swimming. No one said anything about a magical barrier. The sharks go where the seals are and mostly they stay in deeper waters than the swimmers. It's the great whites that we are hearing about around here lately. There were quite a few sighted last summer, feeding off the seals, and there have been some sightings already this year--but not on this beach where I live.
I will still go in the ocean because there are no seals here--yet--and I don't go way out in the deep water.
Even on the Cape, if the lifeguards don't see fit to close the beach, it is probably safe.
I was just down the Jersey Shore all week and swam in the Ocean everyday. It did cross my mind once or twice though haha-I was close to Cape May and had a friend visiting from Rockaway.
2. Most swimmers are not going to get bit by one nor personally ever know someone who was.
Enjoy the water you are more likely to get hit by lightening than get attacked by a shark. Looking at the known Shark attacks in the USA Out of the millions of people swimming in the ocean it seems the average is less than 1 per year. I bet we have more bathtub drowning than that.
For the Curious--- known shark attacks in USA (Incl pre-Statehood Hawaii) HERE
Just don't go in at dawn or dusk and don't swim with your dog. You will be fine.
I went yesterday and didn't even think about the sharks. I was SO happy to be in the ocean again!
I don't have a dog and the cats don't like me to take them swimming.
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