you know that Jaws wasn't Cape Cod, but this is. Yesterday.
We go to Marconi beach every year (where this great white was spotted 40 yards off shore) and there are always a ton of seals, there and Nauset Beach. And when the seals start swimming or drifting close by, the tourists flock to the water. And when I see my kids doing it to, I become like Chief Brody. People think I'm nuts, but seals are shark food.
you know that Jaws wasn't Cape Cod, but this is. Yesterday.
We go to Marconi beach every year (where this great white was spotted 40 yards off shore) and there are always a ton of seals, there and Nauset Beach. And when the seals start swimming or drifting close by, the tourists flock to the water. And when I see my kids doing it to, I become like Chief Brody. People think I'm nuts, but seals are shark food.
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Yeah ... should be a fun weekend for Cape Cod. lol Hope they have a Quint.
We go to Marconi beach every year (where this great white was spotted 40 yards off shore) and there are always a ton of seals, there and Nauset Beach. And when the seals start swimming or drifting close by, the tourists flock to the water. And when I see my kids doing it to, I become like Chief Brody. People think I'm nuts, but seals are shark food.
I was kayaking off the coast Maine a few years ago with my kids when several seals popped up around us. I told them we needed to get the hell out of there because there was likely to be sharks following them.
We go to Marconi beach every year (where this great white was spotted 40 yards off shore) and there are always a ton of seals, there and Nauset Beach. And when the seals start swimming or drifting close by, the tourists flock to the water. And when I see my kids doing it to, I become like Chief Brody. People think I'm nuts, but seals are shark food.
I was kayaking off the coast Maine a few years ago with my kids when several seals popped up around us. I told them we needed to get the hell out of there because there was likely to be sharks following them.
A few years ago I took a ferry from Rockport, ME to vinyl haven - one of the islands of the Camden/Rockport coast.
While on the ferry we'd see tons of seals floating around the harbor. We heard a loud commotion and while I didn't see exactly what happened I saw the results, a severed seal body with the head floating away and blood throughout the water. People who saw it said a shark just like a torpedo severed the seal in half.
I feel like my shark approach is reasonable and rational, not overly cautious, but I will not allow my kids in water with seals. it's simple. some people don't see the risk. I pray for their children (and likely nothing will ever happen).
The actors actually got a few under their belts before they filmed that scene. Robert Shaw was really buzzed by the 2nd take. They re-shot it the next day and edited the few takes together to create that masterful scene.
"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week.
Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like ol' squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. He'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb."
Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark... swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief.... I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.
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bucket list item, checked off.
Not going to lie, given the billion times I've seen the movie it was more fun than it should have been.
you know that Jaws wasn't Cape Cod, but this is. Yesterday.
We go to Marconi beach every year (where this great white was spotted 40 yards off shore) and there are always a ton of seals, there and Nauset Beach. And when the seals start swimming or drifting close by, the tourists flock to the water. And when I see my kids doing it to, I become like Chief Brody. People think I'm nuts, but seals are shark food.
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you know that Jaws wasn't Cape Cod, but this is. Yesterday.
We go to Marconi beach every year (where this great white was spotted 40 yards off shore) and there are always a ton of seals, there and Nauset Beach. And when the seals start swimming or drifting close by, the tourists flock to the water. And when I see my kids doing it to, I become like Chief Brody. People think I'm nuts, but seals are shark food.
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Yeah ... should be a fun weekend for Cape Cod. lol Hope they have a Quint.
We go to Marconi beach every year (where this great white was spotted 40 yards off shore) and there are always a ton of seals, there and Nauset Beach. And when the seals start swimming or drifting close by, the tourists flock to the water. And when I see my kids doing it to, I become like Chief Brody. People think I'm nuts, but seals are shark food.
I was kayaking off the coast Maine a few years ago with my kids when several seals popped up around us. I told them we needed to get the hell out of there because there was likely to be sharks following them.
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We go to Marconi beach every year (where this great white was spotted 40 yards off shore) and there are always a ton of seals, there and Nauset Beach. And when the seals start swimming or drifting close by, the tourists flock to the water. And when I see my kids doing it to, I become like Chief Brody. People think I'm nuts, but seals are shark food.
I was kayaking off the coast Maine a few years ago with my kids when several seals popped up around us. I told them we needed to get the hell out of there because there was likely to be sharks following them.
A few years ago I took a ferry from Rockport, ME to vinyl haven - one of the islands of the Camden/Rockport coast.
While on the ferry we'd see tons of seals floating around the harbor. We heard a loud commotion and while I didn't see exactly what happened I saw the results, a severed seal body with the head floating away and blood throughout the water. People who saw it said a shark just like a torpedo severed the seal in half.
I feel like my shark approach is reasonable and rational, not overly cautious, but I will not allow my kids in water with seals. it's simple. some people don't see the risk. I pray for their children (and likely nothing will ever happen).
The actors actually got a few under their belts before they filmed that scene. Robert Shaw was really buzzed by the 2nd take. They re-shot it the next day and edited the few takes together to create that masterful scene.
That's some good movie-making right there !!
Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like ol' squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.
Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. He'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He's a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb."
My buddies and I used to quote this line all the time.