To illustrate to a reporter what that might look like, he referenced “Jaws.”
“When Quint went to shoot the shark, he was out on the end of the pulpit of his boat,” Skomal explained in a phone call with The Daily News.
The similarities between the fictional Quint and Skomal end there. Far from a shark hunter, Skomal’s a biologist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and an internationally-recognized shark expert.
In 2009, he and John Chisholm were the first to successfully tag and track white sharks the name preferred by scientists over “great white sharks” in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean using high-tech tags, according to the Massachusetts-based Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
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Bridge jumping is a relatively rare occurrence, but not in Newport County and not in the past couple of months. Three people lost their lives jumping off Newport County bridges and 27 lost their lives in the past nine years.
When it comes to suicide in the U.S., the most common means is by firearms, which accounts for about 55% of the suicide deaths, followed by suffocation, poisoning and jumping.
It may seem obvious to anyone who lives in Newport County as to why a person would contemplate jumping off a bridge. Bridges are everywhere. They are convenient and link our islands together. The paradox is that people around here don’t enjoy crossing bridges. They prefer to stay put, and yet they may consider jumping off the bridge, if distraught enough.