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Acmetonia Elementary School fourth-graders pose for a photo on the steps of their Harmar school following their announcement of raising $8,362.96 for Cape Clasp on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.
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Acmetonia Elementary School teacher Elizabeth Newill announces the amount raised for Cape Clasp during an assembly in Harmar on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.
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Fourth-graders at Acmetonia Elementary School in Harmar gather in an assembly revealing how much money was raised in their Ecostudent Challenge on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.
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An imitation check is displayed at an assembly at Acmetonia Elementary School announcing the raising of $8,362.96 for Cape Clasp in Harmar on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.
We have all seen reports by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, the Department of Marine Fisheries who have partnered with Arizona State University, about Great White Shark sightings in our area over the past couple of years.
Those scientists have been hard a working tagging and studying Great White Shark behavior and have some shocking results, according to amp.capecodtiimes.com.
Hang on to your floaties, because the study shows that Great White sharks spent an average of 47% percent of their time in water less than 15 feet deep, the article stated.
Suzanne Grout Thomas, Wellfleet community services director and beach administrator told the Cape Cod Times: “We got so many pings (detections) off our buoys last summer it was ridiculous. I think my perspective is not that of the average beachgoer, so I’m not surprised (by the study results. I would not be surprised if the average beachgoer was shocked.”
White sharks off Cape Cod spend almost half their time in shallow water, study says
By Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent,Updated March 31, 2021, 9:57 p.m.
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A great white shark swam close to the Cape Cod shore in Chatham.Wayne Davis/Atlantic White Shark Conservancy via AP/file
White sharks prowling off Cape Cod spend almost half their time in water 15 feet deep or less, bringing them close to swimmers at beaches, though the risk of an attack is low, according to a study led by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
White sharks tracked during the summer and fall of 2017 spent 95 percent of their time at depths of 100 feet or less with water temperatures from 48 to 69 degrees,
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