Cape Cod shark documentary ‘Great White Summer’ streaming quickly: ‘Someone’s gonna get harm’

One other documentary in regards to the Cape Cod shark state of affairs will stream quickly, because the movie reveals the aftermath of the primary deadly shark chunk in 82 years and the way locals are combating the brand new regular.

The documentary “Great White Summer” explores the rising divide over what to do alongside the Cape, as a rising variety of white sharks hunt for seals near shore each summer season and fall.

The filmmakers started recording a number of months after 26-year-old Arthur Medici died when an ideal white shark bit him at Newcomb Hole Seaside in Wellfleet.

“We captured really raw emotion after the attack,” Nick Budabin, the movie’s director/producer, instructed the Herald. “It’s a deep dive into how the community deals with this kind of trauma.”

Finally, Budabin hopes that viewers takeaway that the native shark state of affairs is a fancy concern, together with the significance of getting a dialogue in the neighborhood.

Shark researchers estimate that tons of of nice white sharks now migrate north to the Cape each summer season and fall — stalking seals close to the shoreline.

Along with the deadly shark chunk, different beachgoers have been bitten and many shut calls have been reported within the final decade. That has led to nice angst in the neighborhood.

“This is no longer a swimming, surfing destination,” resident AJ Salerno says through the documentary. “We were out here last week. It was 80 degrees, hot as could be. Everybody wanted to jump in. Nobody did.

“… Someone’s gonna get hurt,” he added. “It’s not like it’s going to happen to everybody, but if everyone’s in the water, somebody’s going down. We knew that last year. It happened last year.”

Shark bites on people are extraordinarily uncommon, and the chance of a deadly shark assault is even decrease.

“But all it takes is one (shark attack) to change the human psyche,” shark researcher Greg Skomal says within the movie. “Nobody likes the idea of being bitten and killed by a wild animal of any kind… I know I can’t change the behavior of sharks and seals, but I can change my behavior. And unfortunately, that’s what we have to do.”

Heather Doyle of the Cape Cod Ocean Neighborhood group is among the major characters adopted all through the movie. She desires to seek out technological options to forestall shark assaults.

“Doing nothing would ultimately be turning the beaches over to the sharks,” Doyle says within the movie. “And that’s not something that we should allow to happen without a good, strong fight.”