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Category Archives: Sharks
13 Years Ago Today – The Day Greg Skomal Knew White Sharks off Cape Cod’s Beaches Was the New Normal
One of the questions I asked Greg Skomal as we were writing Chasing Shadows, our new book that published earlier this month, was when did he feel he knew that sharks in shallow water off the Cape’s beaches were not … Continue reading
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The Most Important Shark Attack
This is the fifth in a series of blog entries leading up to the release of my new book, Chasing Shadows, written with shark biologist Greg Skomal. Click here to see all the blog entries in this series. When it comes to shark attacks, the string … Continue reading
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Tagged Jack casey, john brodeur, shark attack, shark science
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World War II and Shark-related Psychosis
This is the fourth in a series of blog entries leading up to the release of my new book, Chasing Shadows, written with shark biologist Greg Skomal. Click here to see all the blog entries in this series. The last two entries in my ten-day countdown … Continue reading
The Jaws Effect
Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, and it’s also a couple days into National Geographic’s SharkFest. CHASING SHADOWS, my new book written with shark biologist Greg Skomal, publishes in just nine days…so, of course, I’m thinking sharks and Jaws and … Continue reading
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Naming Sharks
In Chasing Shadows, which comes out in just 10 days, my co-author, Greg Skomal, and I talk about the practice of naming the sharks he is studying. Greg is a shark biologist, and he’s identified many sharks off the coast … Continue reading
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Tagged Chasing Shadows, greg skomal, naming animals, white sharks
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Countdown to CHASING SHADOWS Launch Day – Daily Blog Entries with Excerpts from the Book
Chasing Shadows is a book about the resurgence in the white shark population in the western North Atlantic seen through the eyes of shark biologist Greg Skomal, who quite unexpectedly, found himself in the middle of it all. Written with … Continue reading
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30 Years of Coastal Shark Protection in the Atlantic
This April marks the 30th anniversary of US federal protection for sharks in the Atlantic Ocean. It was a long time coming, but these regulations, in combination with the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act and the 1997 ban on killing … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Stan!
Today is Stan Waterman’s 100th birthday! For those who don’t know, Stan Waterman is a five time Emmy winning cinematographer and a pioneering giant in the world of shark diving. We mention Stan a couple times in Chasing Shadows because … Continue reading
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Where Science and Poetry Meet
The white shark is no myth. It is no accident or aberration. It is the result of a sequence of precise adaptations achieved over millions of years, and it has culminated in this—a near-perfect, albeit little-understood, animal swimming steadily north along the Outer Cape on a mid-September morning. Continue reading
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Tagged Chasing Shadows, tim dee, white shark, writing life
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My Relationship with White Sharks
With a growing number of white sharks returning to New England each summer, I’ve been asking people about their relationship with sharks and how that relationship may have changed over time. I’m struck that many start by talking about JAWS. … Continue reading
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