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A fisherman and his son crusing off the southern coast of New Jersey captured video of a great white shark almost half the dimensions of his 23-foot-long boat.
The fisherman, Pennsylvanian native Jim Piazza, is renting a house in Sea Isle for the summer time and had been fishing with his son, Jayden when he almost ran proper into over the 12-foot shark.
Massive great white shark noticed off the coast of Jersey Shore
(Jim Piazza)
“The movies don’t do it justice,” Piazza mentioned on the dimensions of the shark. “It was simply nonchalantly there. I’ve by no means seen something like that.” He later posted a video of the encounter on his Facebook web page.
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Not lengthy after the incident was reported, the U.S. Coast Guard boarded Piazza’s boat and, after performing a security examine, additionally shared the video to their social media channels.
12-foot shark noticed off the coast of Jersey Shore, startling a bunch of fishermen
(Jim Piazza)
Sharks are usually not uncommon to New Jersey however getting video that shut to 1 definitely is with great whites hardly ever come shut sufficient to shores to threaten swimmers. The International Shark Attack file, based mostly in Florida, lists 15 confirmed and unprovoked shark assaults in New Jersey since 1837.
Large great white shark swims away from fishermen off of New Jersey Shore
(Jim Piazza)
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Warming waters are a potential clarification for sharks swimming nearer to shores, with states reminiscent of New York increasing a program to trace their motion by way of drones.
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While this shark is massive for its species it’s not at all an outlier. A 1,000-pound great white shark named Ironbound was tracked off the Jersey Shore as just lately as April 2022. Additionally, OCEARCH tagged and tracked a 16-foot, 3,456 feminine named Mary Lee for 4 years up and down the East Coast.
Her final identified location was off the South Jersey shore.
