"Mommy, we're gonna go swim in the pond" "Okay kids, now you be careful" "Haha mom...it's a pond, it's not like there's great white sharks or anything"....
i'm from mass.and I remember this shark. it happened a few yrs ago. a bad storm with an unusually high tide opened up this salt pond which let the shark in, then he was trapped there for about week until scientist could manage to get him out. it was down at the cape in falmouth, ironically right across the bay from woodshole oceanicraphic institute. they finally coaxed him out without harm and he's probably gobbling up seals to this day.
bull sharks have a more squared off nose like the tiger shark, and a generally shorter, more stout body. look at this vid closely, notice the pointed nose. also check out part 2 for an underwater viewpoint, it is most definitely a great white.
For those who appear to be doubting what species of shark this is, the link for 'part 2' gives a much better look at the shark. It is, indeed, a great white.
GW, ID'D and tagged. There a is no river or stream associated with the location the shark was. it's connected to open water. Merely an opening along the shore where saltwater comes in and forms what looks like a pond. In the NE we call it a salt pond.
you know those moments when you're lost and you start to drive slow and say to yourself "I'm pretty sure I was suppose to take the other left." probably what's going on with this shark as he swims slowly.
I was there the first day this shark was spotted in the pond, we drove down there and spent hours watching it, and several times it surfaced next to our boat just like in this video. The second day we motored down and spent another couple of hours down there working with fisheries and volunteers trying to drive the shark out of this inlet. By noon of the second day it was a total madhouse, dozens of boats trying to gain access, CG limited access to the area.
I might say sub adult. That's getting pretty big, might be surpassing the juvenile stage. Another 2 years in the ocean and it will be listening to that music, dun unt dun unt dun unt.
This is a totally awesome piece of footage, as was your other clip with the underwater view. What a beautiful creature this is. I'm totally jealous of you for getting that up-close-and-personal moment in such a lovely spot too. Seeing one of those in person in the water has always been at the top of my bucketlist even though I'm allergic to the plankton in sea water. Totally nature in one of it's great moments captured on camera. Kudos to you, sir.
Great white sharks HAVE occasionally swum up rivers, although not very often. In 1915 three of them were caught in a river in New Jersey (near Sandy Hook) following a rash of fatal shark attacks along the Jersey shore. None of the sharks caught were found to have killed and eaten people, but nonetheless it proves great whites DO sometimes swim up rivers.
Excellent footage. The shape of the dorsal fin certainly seems to be more like that of a Great White than a Bull (Bull's tend to round off more at the top). Also, in the dying seconds of the video, it appears as if you can see the full tail under the water as the shark swims by. If it's not the light playing tricks, the upper and lower lobes seem fairly symmetrical, once more pointing towards a Great White. Bull's have significantly longer upper lobes.
Not a year-rounder but have been summering in The Cape my entire life 30+ years...if you have large seal populations, you've got Greats, and that's def. one
It is definitely real. The shark was carried into the salt pond during an extreme high tide in stormy weather. She could not figure out how to escape, and eventually she had to be guided out! Re: fresh water, you've got the wrong shark. Lake Nicaragua sharks, Zambezi sharks, etc- all bull sharks. They can happily go back and forth from salt to fresh water, or stay in either one.
Defo great white,and the salt pond is part of a flood plain and as the waters retreat it got caught threre ,same as the one of New York in about 1918 wich killed. 5 or 6 in two days it was what inspired the jaws movie
The entire time I was waiting for something to pop out at me. But this is fascinating nonetheless - it's rare to be able to glimpse something like this in the wild.
sorry, I was there. This is a great white. If you were a "shark biologist" you would probably know about the first white sharks to be found in the Atlantic here in Chatham, Cape Cod and you would most likely spell "prey" correctly. Also, the sandbar shark is not found everywhere in the world
I used to live all around, and I saw one Great White by Goodland Florida!!!!! It is still salt water, but the start of Everglades (I used to live in Miami Beach... It was amazing to see a 14 foot shark in an 8 foot deep crystal clear water...
@jrepnin speaking of that local it's amazing how many sharks teeth can be located in the fresh water creek beds that are well inland. they are easy to find but they are fossils. that area was ocean floor (if I'm correct in the time) 75 million years ago. sharks teeth are easiest to find but there are fossils of other marine animals as well.
This wasn't fresh water, this was a salt pond as it says in the description. The White likely wouldn't be able to live there for long, but he would certainly be able to do it for a while.
Next to last thing you'd expect in shallow water like that. Can you imaging casually paddling down that river in a kayak and seeing that next to you? I'd fill my shorts like a jelly donut I would.
Seriously, folks, check out the link. Very cool story! And yes, it is a Great White. It found its way into a salt water estuary, and then was coaxed and guided back out to sea by local fisherman and marine biologists.
You are intelligent enough, not to extrapolate anything more than what has been stated, or what is shown in the video. Thank you. So you know, a salt pond is nothing more than a regional term for a lagoon or estuary. It's not literally a pond.
Wow! There is intelligent life form on youtube. Thank you very much for your comment. It seems so simple yet it slips through the mental grasp of so many. They probably prefered books with lots of pictures.
That's an amazing experience, if you have any video I'd love to see it posted up here on youtube. We just don't get this kind of action is Missouri. Maybe a deer stuck on some river ice. And we once had a cop shoot at a fake concrete alligator a farmer stuck in a pond. But that's about the extent of our exciting events.
in n.z as kids we were taught never to swim in estuarys (salt rivers conected to the ocean) as thats the breeding ground for sharks... yet here in a.u i see parents with their kids and toddlers swimming in estuarys as they think it safer than the surf beaches, give me the shivers!
Not unless your name is Gilligan and your marooned after a 3 hour tour. That lagoon they were always talking about is what we in the North East call a salt pond.
Yea.. it does look like a GWS... They are known to go into rivers chasing food. Another fact.... there is so much we do not know about these sharks... such as where 50% of the year .... where they go to give birth and a lot of other things. Awesome video!
it was shallow, and that was the problem the shark had, because it was so shallow, the shark couldn't find its way out, and was there for two weeks. this happened in 04. marine fisheries fonally kept spraying it with water from a boat to guide it out.
Bull Sharks, as you know, can travel hundreds of miles up rivers. Saltys as well. This is a Great White though, and in a salt water pond, it wouldn't live long in a fresh water.
You are wrong & I will correct you. It IS a great white as you can see by the white underbelly & snout shape. It's not uncommon for sharks to travel many, many miles from the ocean upstream into lakes, rivers,etc. Also, this shark is not in captivity-- whatever gave you that idea? (I'm a fish biologist)
awesome video thanks for the links too I like how this ones dorsal fin is a good example of how similar the dorsals are too basking sharks as some experts say there quite different but I tend to dissagree I think that the more mature female whites are more shaped like an "A" on the dorsal .
@TheDontrell1234 you are wrong sir, this is indeed a great white, you can tell by the more triangular nose, bulls have a more flat nose (not like a tiger, but not sharp like a white) anyone who has seen sharks as much as i have would understand what they look like, its a great white, guaranteed. Great whites have made it inland before, its not news dude. Only bull sharks can comfortably live in fresh water, but all sharks can get in and out.....read the description next time.
IM from Rhode Island and you are right about bull sharks not coming that far up but in all fairness a bull shark has the ability to make it as far. They have recorded Bull Sharks as far as 2800 miles up the mississippi.
lt's so obvious. He just wants to be the big fish in the small pond.
"Mommy, we're gonna go swim in the pond" "Okay kids, now you be careful" "Haha mom...it's a pond, it's not like there's great white sharks or anything"....
i'm from mass.and I remember this shark. it happened a few yrs ago. a bad storm with an unusually high tide opened up this salt pond which let the shark in, then he was trapped there for about week until scientist could manage to get him out.
it was down at the cape in falmouth, ironically right across the bay from woodshole
oceanicraphic institute.
they finally coaxed him out without harm and he's probably gobbling up seals to this day.
Famous last words.. "I think I can ride that"....
Bullsharks are not as torpedo shaped nor do they have pointed snouts. That is a juvenile great white. end of story.
Wow, look at how majestically it glides through the water barely causing a ripple in the still pond.
Shark turn a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
"You're gonna need a bigger pond."
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
Pond? Are you sure. How the hell does a shark get in a pond?
bull sharks have a more squared off nose like the tiger shark, and a generally shorter, more stout body. look at this vid closely, notice the pointed nose. also check out part 2 for an underwater viewpoint, it is most definitely a great white.
one does not simply watch a great white pass them and not shit bricks
exactly why my ass stays on land where it belongs
This is not brackish or fresh water. It's so close to open water you would be surprised. Check out Part two. The link is in the description.
For those who appear to be doubting what species of shark this is, the link for 'part 2' gives a much better look at the shark. It is, indeed, a great white.
GW, ID'D and tagged. There a is no river or stream associated with the location the shark was. it's connected to open water. Merely an opening along the shore where saltwater comes in and forms what looks like a pond. In the NE we call it a salt pond.
you know those moments when you're lost and you start to drive slow and say to yourself "I'm pretty sure I was suppose to take the other left." probably what's going on with this shark as he swims slowly.
It says SALT POND
Great footage.
I was there the first day this shark was spotted in the pond, we drove down there and spent hours watching it, and several times it surfaced next to our boat just like in this video. The second day we motored down and spent another couple of hours down there working with fisheries and volunteers trying to drive the shark out of this inlet. By noon of the second day it was a total madhouse, dozens of boats trying to gain access, CG limited access to the area.
I might say sub adult. That's getting pretty big, might be surpassing the juvenile stage. Another 2 years in the ocean and it will be listening to that music, dun unt dun unt dun unt.
I love all the experts. I am in awe to be surrounded by such great knowledge.
This is a totally awesome piece of footage, as was your other clip with the underwater view. What a beautiful creature this is. I'm totally jealous of you for getting that up-close-and-personal moment in such a lovely spot too. Seeing one of those in person in the water has always been at the top of my bucketlist even though I'm allergic to the plankton in sea water. Totally nature in one of it's great moments captured on camera. Kudos to you, sir.
A salt pond is a North East term for a lagoon or estuary
Great white sharks HAVE occasionally swum up rivers, although not very often. In 1915 three of them were caught in a river in New Jersey (near Sandy Hook) following a rash of fatal shark attacks along the Jersey shore. None of the sharks caught were found to have killed and eaten people, but nonetheless it proves great whites DO sometimes swim up rivers.
Well some ponds are fed by a stream. I didn't make up the term "salt pond" Some say tidal pond.
Gene-Yes it is a great white that happened to get trapped in the river. It was later led back to sea by fisherman.
Excellent footage. The shape of the dorsal fin certainly seems to be more like that of a Great White than a Bull (Bull's tend to round off more at the top). Also, in the dying seconds of the video, it appears as if you can see the full tail under the water as the shark swims by. If it's not the light playing tricks, the upper and lower lobes seem fairly symmetrical, once more pointing towards a Great White. Bull's have significantly longer upper lobes.
i was there visiting my aunt when this happened, it was bad ass to see such a huge animal up close
This is some of the most amazing footage. the clear water makes it look awesome.
shit, thats a great white shark
its amazing how much speed they can achive while moving their tail soo little.
Shark: i own this pond stay away.. STAY AWAY!!!
It is a Great White shark. The shape of the head, dorsal fin, and tail fin all match.
I love how watching youtube videos of fish seems to make everyone a self-proclaimed ichthyologist.
"hold my beer for me..."
Not a year-rounder but have been summering in The Cape my entire life 30+ years...if you have large seal populations, you've got Greats, and that's def. one
It's a DAMN-I'm-stuck-in-a-pond shark.
I was just about to advise that you didn't have a Great White there, but.... you have a Great White there!!!! bad ass!
It is definitely real. The shark was carried into the salt pond during an extreme high tide in stormy weather. She could not figure out how to escape, and eventually she had to be guided out!
Re: fresh water, you've got the wrong shark. Lake Nicaragua sharks, Zambezi sharks, etc- all bull sharks. They can happily go back and forth from salt to fresh water, or stay in either one.
Defo great white,and the salt pond is part of a flood plain and as the waters retreat it got caught threre ,same as the one of New York in about 1918 wich killed. 5 or 6 in two days it was what inspired the jaws movie
That's amazing. You were lucky to catch such a rare moment. :)
I love watching sharks just cruise through water with such little effort.
"Your" just about as cute as could be.
Michaels in the pond!!!
i had swim in lakes at night not anymore after seeing this :)
The entire time I was waiting for something to pop out at me. But this is fascinating nonetheless - it's rare to be able to glimpse something like this in the wild.
sorry, I was there. This is a great white. If you were a "shark biologist" you would probably know about the first white sharks to be found in the Atlantic here in Chatham, Cape Cod and you would most likely spell "prey" correctly. Also, the sandbar shark is not found everywhere in the world
yup, deffinetly a white, the caudal fin is equal on both sides, thats the big giveaway
I used to live all around, and I saw one Great White by Goodland Florida!!!!! It is still salt water, but the start of Everglades (I used to live in Miami Beach... It was amazing to see a 14 foot shark in an 8 foot deep crystal clear water...
@jrepnin speaking of that local it's amazing how many sharks teeth can be located in the fresh water creek beds that are well inland. they are easy to find but they are fossils. that area was ocean floor (if I'm correct in the time) 75 million years ago. sharks teeth are easiest to find but there are fossils of other marine animals as well.
This wasn't fresh water, this was a salt pond as it says in the description. The White likely wouldn't be able to live there for long, but he would certainly be able to do it for a while.
So glad that the Falmouth County stepped in to help this majestic animal. Makes me have faith in humanity!
Next to last thing you'd expect in shallow water like that.
Can you imaging casually paddling down that river in a kayak and seeing that next to you?
I'd fill my shorts like a jelly donut I would.
Seriously, folks, check out the link. Very cool story! And yes, it is a Great White. It found its way into a salt water estuary, and then was coaxed and guided back out to sea by local fisherman and marine biologists.
SALT POND!
Good job I can't believe you found that thing in a pond a great white awesome
Beautiful so Stealthy!, Sharks are Magnificent Creatures!!!
You are intelligent enough, not to extrapolate anything more than what has been stated, or what is shown in the video. Thank you. So you know, a salt pond is nothing more than a regional term for a lagoon or estuary. It's not literally a pond.
Bro you truly have sum good comebacks
i have just witnessed youtube gold.
i would be like,"hell, you only live once i'm going swimming"
it sure looks like one
Thanks for all of that, Aquaman!
Wow! There is intelligent life form on youtube. Thank you very much for your comment. It seems so simple yet it slips through the mental grasp of so many. They probably prefered books with lots of pictures.
That's an amazing experience, if you have any video I'd love to see it posted up here on youtube. We just don't get this kind of action is Missouri. Maybe a deer stuck on some river ice. And we once had a cop shoot at a fake concrete alligator a farmer stuck in a pond. But that's about the extent of our exciting events.
I would never take a swim in salt water ponds again, its scary!
That's very cool. Thanks for posting. Did you get in any of the photos on the mass.gov site?
It looks so peaceful!
in n.z as kids we were taught never to swim in estuarys (salt rivers conected to the ocean) as thats the breeding ground for sharks... yet here in a.u i see parents with their kids and toddlers swimming in estuarys as they think it safer than the surf beaches, give me the shivers!
Not unless your name is Gilligan and your marooned after a 3 hour tour. That lagoon they were always talking about is what we in the North East call a salt pond.
we do have mako sharks in mass too.. they look a lot like great white in shape but they are smaller and more common
shark must be thinking to himself " i is lost... lol"
finally i know what my senior pranks gonna be!! nobody go swimmin on may 26th :p
I am never sitting on the toilet again
hahah! mint one-liner, that last sentence!!! :))
Excellent observation. Although I was never a fan of huge slits.
how... did it get in a pond?
Massachusetts is a weird place.
Well that is slighty terrifying
hey Betty i reckon that that's one of them there sharks i hear so much about on that TV box
Yea.. it does look like a GWS... They are known to go into rivers chasing food. Another fact.... there is so much we do not know about these sharks... such as where 50% of the year .... where they go to give birth and a lot of other things. Awesome video!
it was shallow, and that was the problem the shark had, because it was so shallow, the shark couldn't find its way out, and was there for two weeks. this happened in 04. marine fisheries fonally kept spraying it with water from a boat to guide it out.
Beautifully graceful.
that's what confidence looks like.
Bull Sharks, as you know, can travel hundreds of miles up rivers. Saltys as well. This is a Great White though, and in a salt water pond, it wouldn't live long in a fresh water.
I had a small one in my aquarium, it grew so fast and thus became square a few days later
just wondering, where do you get that heid means head ?
You are wrong & I will correct you. It IS a great white as you can see by the white underbelly & snout shape. It's not uncommon for sharks to travel many, many miles from the ocean upstream into lakes, rivers,etc. Also, this shark is not in captivity-- whatever gave you that idea? (I'm a fish biologist)
Um....JAWS 6 WAITING TO HAPPEN!
What was it about "salt pond" that slipped through the cracks of your mind?
Awesome. So close and so clear.
Shark : Hey Hey You, Pull My Tail. Man : Ok? Shark : RAAAAWR
Got to be a bull shark
awesome video thanks for the links too I like how this ones dorsal fin is a good example of how similar the dorsals are too basking sharks as some experts say there quite different but I tend to dissagree I think that the more mature female whites are more shaped like an "A" on the dorsal .
How far up is this? Like miles.
looking from the head shape, it is a great white :)
curious how it got here haha
@TheDontrell1234 you are wrong sir, this is indeed a great white, you can tell by the more triangular nose, bulls have a more flat nose (not like a tiger, but not sharp like a white) anyone who has seen sharks as much as i have would understand what they look like, its a great white, guaranteed. Great whites have made it inland before, its not news dude. Only bull sharks can comfortably live in fresh water, but all sharks can get in and out.....read the description next time.
It looks so calm and it's swimming so leisurely, I'd totally swim next to it!
how big is that pond?
IM from Rhode Island and you are right about bull sharks not coming that far up but in all fairness a bull shark has the ability to make it as far. They have recorded Bull Sharks as far as 2800 miles up the mississippi.