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White shark -- New England.
Shark attacks -- New England.
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Skomal, Gregory.
Skomal, Gregory.
White shark -- New England.
Shark attacks -- New England.
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Chasing shadows : my life tracking the great
white
shark
/ Greg Skomal with Ret Talbot.
by
Skomal, Gregory.
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
Call #:
597.33 S628c
Subjects
Skomal, Gregory.
White
shark
--
New
England
.
Shark
attacks
--
New
England
.
ISBN:
9780063090835 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 353 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : color ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"Dr. Greg Skomal, one of the leading great
white
shark
experts in the country, reveals the true nature of these mysterious apex predators as well as the fascinating story behind their history and startling resurgence. With its quaint villages, local restaurants serving up lobster rolls, and miles and miles of warm, sandy beaches, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is famous for being America’s carefree seaside getaway. But in August 2012, the first confirmed
shark
attack in almost eighty years occurred in the region. As
shark
sightings quickly began to increase on Cape Cod and elsewhere and large beachside billboards warning about the growing
shark
population became a common sight, a boogie boarder died after being attacked by a great
white
shark
in Cape Cod’s shallow waters. What had changed to cause news of human-shark interactions to go from being a rarity to being the
new
normal? As some citizens called for
shark
culls, nets, drone surveillance, and other extreme solutions, interactions between local residents and scientists, politicians, and those responsible for public safety became tense and frantic.Dr. Greg Skomal, a
shark
biologist whose lifelong passion has been to gain a more refined understanding of great
white
sharks, was at the center of it all. This is the story of the great
white
shark’s return to the eastern seaboard, told through the life of the scientist who found himself in the thankless position of having to balance conservation efforts and the drive to do important science with panic and fear in the court of public opinion. Greg has spent decades on a quest to tag, track, and demystify this animal, using every high- and low-tech method at his disposal, including those he invented, and frequently coming face-to-face with these shadows of the deep. He leaves no stone unturned in his pursuit of the secrets behind the largely unknown lives of these charismatic creatures and in his duty to solve the intricate puzzle of how humans can coexist alongside them. Chasing Shadows is a too-rare conservation success story about restoring an apex predator to an ecosystem, and provides a profound,
new
understanding of a beast so notoriously fierce that it’s nearly impossible to imagine how vulnerable it truly is."--Publisher.
Other authors:
Talbot, Ret.
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