The phrase swimming with the fishes has taken on a new meaning this summer. At one time, if someone was swimming with the fishes, it meant that they were usually dead and had been murdered. More recently the phrase has taken on a new meaning of actually swimming with the fishes in a controlled environment like an aquarium.
Sharks have been sighted off the Chatham coastline. The sharks are drawn to that location because of the seal population, which is a favorite food for sharks. www.mychatham.com . Due to the number of sharks observed swimming, in the waters near Chatham, authorities have banned swimming in the eastern shoreline. Great white sharks have been sighted near Monomoy Island http://www.capecodtravel.com/towns/chatham/monomoyisle0399.shtml
and the North Beach Inlets. So in this case, swimming with the fishes is not a good idea even if you keep a watchful eye to the water. There is a preconceived idea that sharks are not able to swim in shallow waters, which isn’t true. Attacks have occurred in very shallow waters.
People do swim with the sharks, as Diana Nyad will attempt to do, in the near future by swimming by103 miles across the Straits of Florida from Cuba to Key West http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/health/nutrition.
So if you decide not to go swimming here are a couple of other ideas:
Annual Provincetown Carnival 8/14/11 to 8/19/11
Annual Sandcastle Contest – 8/20/11 Mayflower Beach, Dennis
Revere Beach – (the first public beach) just completed its sandcastle competition in July
That’s all for now.
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