I’ll never understand people that fight that insane South Of Boston traffic to go to Cape Cod only to put their lives in danger of getting eaten by a huge ass white shark. I guess it’s Darwinism 101. If you’re dumb enough to go to Cape Cod over Cape Ann you kinda deserve to get eaten by a big ass shark.
Published on Aug 17, 2015
Failed predation attempt off Monomoy, Cape Cod (8/17/15)- filmed by Dr. Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries working with Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Good Morning Gloucester 
Although I agree that Cape Ann is great, and I agree that driving all the way out to Cape Cod is unwise, I would like to quibble with the Darwinism reference. Darwinism is a thing that happens to a population when it is in a particular geographical region and there are forces which cause it to not be able to reproduce, and then it becomes less dominant, or extinct in that region. According to the interesting National Geographic article about “Shark Facts” I just found online, for every human killed by a shark, humans kill approximately two million sharks. And more such regular perspective facts without acccompanying scary videos. Lots more interesting stuff in that article from 2011, back in the old days before children were being regularly frightened by random internet memes lacking context or perspective. Possibly all those shark facts and figures are just so much outdated irrelevant numerical gobbledegook, and your current fears about sharks are completely rational and justified. My personal primary (irrational?) Darwinism fear regards climate change, so allow me to hi-jack the topic away from beach getaways for a few sentences. The particular geographic location in question is the planet, and the population is most of the various larger species, and the species I’m mainly worried about is humans. So when you drive out to Cape Cod to soak in the sun, and look at the peaceful ocean, maybe in your irrational imagination there should be a little scary shark under the waves, and maybe you should worry what you could have done to avoid the prospect of being forced out of the reproductive pool by that vicious shark. It’s possible that “sharks-look-scary-inside-your-irrational-head” is actually a Darwinism thing that developed over the eons in order to protect us.
Also, in your imagination, insert a little scary irrational picture of no humans left on the beach, or anywhere else, and maybe you should worry what you could have done to avoid that prospect.
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“Darwinism is a thing that happens to a population when it is in a particular geographical region and there are forces which cause it to not be able to reproduce, and then it becomes less dominant, or extinct in that region.”
You use a lot more words than Joey but he is expressing the exact same Darwinism 101.
If you are stupid and get eaten by a shark you are not able to reproduce. The bitch side of “survival of the fittest” which is really, “no kids for the stupid”.
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The stats on the National Geographic page mainly referred to reported shark “injuries” which were much more commonplace than reported shark fatalities. That’s why I finessed it a bit. The simplest numbers to run vis-a-vis Darwin would be: how many homo sapiens in this geographical area are being prevented from reproducing by sharks. Looking at the NG numbers, I’m guessing there would be a dozen dead people here and a dozen sufficiently maimed people there (neither of which could conceivably be putting any statistically significant dent in human reproduction rates). But that’s just what you would expect some boring rational person to say, I suppose. What do they know?
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The biggest thing that ever bumped me was a dogfish never bit me just scared me some. Now Buddy Gendreau could tell you a thing or two about dogfish in lanes cove too. I remember he had a little place he called “Buddies Bungalow” up by cemetery on the same side he fished out of…Found a picture in my files of him in lanes cove that little boat he is in securing the lines looked a little bit like what we called the tub we used in cove! 🙂 Dave & Kim 🙂
Source Boston Globe:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/specials/insiders/2013/09/25/gloucester-fishing/iyEEXmj1Orn892u1ak3avO/story.html?pic=9
Nov. 10, 1991: Buddy Gendreau, a commercial diver and fisherman, used extra lines to secure his boat at Lane’s Cove in Gloucester. He was preparing for a storm that did not live up to its billing. A Halloween storm the previous month had!
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