Cape Cod diving

[Steelyeyes]

My wife and I made a quick visit to the Cape Cod area and took a boat ride. The diving opportunities there looked pretty decent (we dive Puget Sound when we aren't warm water diving). When is the best time of year to go diving there? What are the typical water temperatures and visibility?

Thanks,

C

 

[AfterDark]

The best time is when this isn't happening: 10 White Sharks Spotted Off Nauset Beach On Cape Cod

 

[Scuba-74]

Revere man dies after shark attack off Cape Cod

 

[AfterDark]

It was just a matter of time.

 

[Damselfish]

I'm wondering when they will do the Australian thing and start to install shark nets near swimming beaches.

 

[tkaelin]

Just read the story this morning. Sadly predictable and their will be more unfortunately. The number of great whites due to the number of seals will be a big problem for the Cape, both economically and environmentally. I am dreading the day the seals take up residence around Jamestown and Newport.

 

[HalcyonDaze]

I'm wondering when they will do the Australian thing and start to install shark nets near swimming beaches.

Hopefully never. What a lot of people don't realize is that shark nets are not set up as a "wall" to keep sharks and swimmers separated; there are gaps between net sections and a large number of the sharks found in the Australian and South African nets were caught on the inside trying to get out. What shark nets really are is a culling mechanism to decrease the population, and they typically get a lot of bycatch too. I imagine they would snare a lot of seals.

Sad incident, but given the number of white shark sightings off the Cape Cod beaches a fatality was likely to happen at some point. A white shark made a seal kill within throwing distance of the beach near Provincetown last month and there have been multiple shark sightings off Nauset lately in very shallow water. With the end of the summer season the lifeguards had been removed; extending their season should likely be considered so there's a lookout to warn bathers. In Southern California (which is seeing a lot of juvenile whites), beach patrols are starting to use drone spotters to warn beachgoers out of the water.

 

[Scuba-74]

Nets or not, but they better figure out something, and quick. Like before the next summer, or we are screwed.

 

[Basking Ridge Diver]

Nets or not, but they better figure out something, and quick. Like before the next summer, or we are screwed.

Why - because you boogie board?

 

[Scuba-74]

Why - because you boogie board?

Because my family, and thousands other families, spend summer vacations there.

To answer your specific question - no, I do not boogie board, although my 6 and 12 year olds do.