20' Shark on the South Shore of Long Island Pics - The Hull Truth

RumRunnerXT · 07-14-2009, 04:14 PM

So I was hanging out in Hemlock Cove today, Town of Bablyon location in between Cedar and Gilgo on the Bay side. While enjoying a great day with the wife and son on my week off, We notice helicopters circling for hours. about 3 hours later we check the local news chanel on my wifes Cell and find out a 20' Basking Shark washed up on the Ocean side.
We take a walk over and bring the camera, It was a sad sight. Suposedly the shark was circling in the shallow water early in the morning when surfers found it. The shark was dying. By the time we got there it had already died.
The Shark was huge and unreal being that close to it. It is a Basking Shark, so it has no real teeth. It eats Plankton. Still crazy to see something that big where we hang out every week. Remind me of the Half of a Sea Turtle that washed up there Years ago, It was Huge.

By rumrunnerxt, shot with NIKON D40X at 2009-07-14

Gulf Coast Girl · 07-14-2009, 04:25 PM

Great pics

.... sad to see the poor thing dead on the beach

RumRunnerXT · 07-14-2009, 05:20 PM

Yes, it was truly a sad sight. Just about everyone that saw it, had the same sad look on their face. There is video footage on most local TV channels, and they show it dying in the shallows. still not the same as being there though.

jigger · 07-14-2009, 05:55 PM

They are prietty kool amimals. I have one fallow my boat at least once a year. It comes right up tight to my prop. I think it is useing the prop was to help it collect it's dinner.

jbg108 · 07-15-2009, 04:42 AM

I got right up close to one last Saturday. They are cool. I saw one over 30 feet once. It was bigger than the boat.

kev-n-tim · 07-15-2009, 09:56 AM

Damn shark tournaments

Birdman · 07-15-2009, 10:04 AM

How'd it taste?

DeadWeight · 07-15-2009, 04:00 PM

It looks like it was tail wrapped with a chain, or am I seeing things.

Jdizzle · 07-15-2009, 05:41 PM

They put up a hell of a fight on a 50w stand up, until it jumped clear out of the water they we got scared shitless and we cut the line.

RumRunnerXT · 07-16-2009, 06:43 AM

There was a chain around its tail, pretty sure that the State Police pulled it out of the water with their trucks.
Also, the Newspaper says that the marine biologists cut it up a little after I took those pics ans sent samples all over the world for research.

When I was there, I was thinking of the Frank Mundus pictures of him and his buddies catching the Biggest Great White, while floating on the whale carcass. Rememberring, that shark never counted because they were using mammal meat. This thing however is a fish, so that would be legit, just tie up to it and atract some Big Great Whites after a couple days. I know this Basking Shark is probably 1/50th the size of some of those Whales, but it looked so huge.