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Cape May NJ, “we are gonna need a bigger boat” , a massive, 880-pound shark was spotted swimming off the coast of the Jersey Shore and Long Island over the weekend, according to the nonprofit OCEARCH.
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Matawan NJ, from the “History Girl”on July 12, 1916 eleven miles from the ocean was the scene of the Matawan Creek shark attack. Thomas Cottrell, a sea captain, spotted an 8 foot long shark in the creek in the early afternoon but locals dismissed him for being delusional from the extreme heat and recent commotion along the shore regarding shark attacks. Around 2:00 pm that day, local boys, including Lester Stillwell, 11, were playing in the creek at the Wyckoff dock. In the water the boys saw what appeared to be an “old black weather-beaten board or a weathered log.” A dorsal fin appeared in the water and the boys realized it was a shark. Before Stillwell could climb from the creek, the shark attacked him and pulled him underwater. The other boys ran for help and several men, including local businessman Watson Stanley Fisher, 24, came to investigate. Fisher and others dived into the creek to find Stillwell’s body, but he was also attacked by the shark in front of the townspeople. His right thigh was severely injured and he bled to death at Monmouth Memorial Hospital in Long Branch later that day. Stillwell’s body was recovered 150 feet upstream from the dock on July 14.
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The Center for Coastal Studies captured video of sharks feeding on the small minke whale carcass on Thursday
By Marc Fortier
Three beaches on Cape Cod were closed to swimming Friday after as many as six great white sharks were spotted feeding on a whale carcass.
The carcass later washed up near Noons Landing in North Truro. Noons Landing, Beach Point and Cold Storage beaches were declared off limits to swimmers.
Source: 3 Beaches Closed on Cape Cod After 6 Great White Sharks Spotted Feeding on Whale Carcass | NECN https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/3-Beaches-Closed-on-Cape-Cod-After-6-Great-White-Sharks-Spotted-389316522.html#ixzz4GjKMZTRx
By Maria Guardado | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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on August 21, 2015 at 7:00 AM, updated August 21, 2015 at 10:58 AM
LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP — Charlotte Samuels is at ease. It’s 9:30 a.m. and the sun is still rising, but sweltering heat already emanates, warming the strip of lagoon behind her family’s yellow vacation rental home in Loveladies. She’s sitting on the deck above the water, wearing a blue swimsuit, her dark curly hair slightly damp from having taken a dip in a nearby beach earlier this morning.
NJ teen prepares to make 20-mile swim from Long Island to Jersey ShoreCharlotte Samuels, of Ridgewood, is preparing to swim 20 miles from Long Island to the Jersey Shore. This should be no problem after what she accomplished last summer, swimming the 28-mile Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, the 20-mile Catalina Channel and the 21-mile English Channel. (Video by John Munson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
It’s been an unusually calm summer for Samuels, the Ridgewood teenager who last year became the youngest Triple Crown swimmer after completing a series of swims around the island of Manhattan, across the English Channel and across the Catalina Channel in California.
She traveled to Minnesota this June to participate in a poetry slam camp and then to Massachusetts in July to attend a writing program at Smith College. In between, she hung out with her family and friends, maximizing her free time before the start of her senior year at Ridgewood High School.
https://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/08/how_ridgewood_teenager_charlotte_samuels_became_an.html
Shark Free Graydon Pool Memberships Available
With shark sightings along the Jersey Shore and the Kardashians in the Eastend a safe ,local and traffic free environment awaits you at Graydon Pool.
The Village Council and the Ridgewood Department of Parks and Recreation are excited to announce memberships are now on sale for the upcoming summer season and all are invited to join the Graydon Pool facility as season members for the 2014 summer season. Come enjoy fun in the sun so close to home! Opening day is Saturday, May 31st.
Pool features include a shaded playground, water play fountains, shade kites, Adirondack chairs, picnic area, sheltered pavilion, charcoal grills, and The Water’s Edge Café. Additional amenities include a lending library of reading books, volleyball, basketball, ping-pong tables, shuffleboard, four-squares and hop-scotch. Special programs include “Storytime Under a Tree” for the little ones and swim instruction for children and adults, as well as an adaptive swim class. The Graydon Swim Team welcomes youth members, ages 8 to 14.
Resident fees are $120 per adult, $110 per child (ages 2 through 15) and $30 for seniors. Non-resident adults will be charged $200 and children, ages 2 through 15, will be charged $175 for the13 week season.
Badges are now on sale and can be purchased from the comfort of home on Community Pass at www.ridgewoodnj.net/communitypass (Visa and MasterCard are accepted). In person registration assistance will be available Saturdays, May 10 and May 17, 10:00 am to 12 noon, at the Graydon Pool Badge Office (onsite at the pool), 259 North Maple Avenue. Badges may be purchased daily throughout the operating season, May 31st through Septemer 1st.
Details are available at www.ridgewoodnj.net/graydon or you may call the Recreation Office at 201-670-5560 with any questions or if special accommodations are needed.
