Are there any sharks in Shark River NJ? Let's find out...
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- No sharks today but we are always looking. Shark river is a tidal river in Belmar, NJ so it must be dived at slack tide. Water temp 65°F/18°C. Max Depth around 22'/7M. Visibility was amazing (not typical) on this day and we saw lots of life including a clear nose skate, lots of fluke, spot fin butterflies, seabass and black fish. Yes, sometimes you can dive in NJ and be rewarded with clear blue water and lots of live.
Shark river NJ has I direct link to the ocean so it is very common for sharks to be in the river at any given time there have been many species of sharks spotted in shark river NJ such as blue sharks, mako shark, and thresher sharks I know this as fact because I live in Belmar NJ very close to shark river
Wow lots of critiquing! Our Jersey waters are actually very beautiful and the beaches are clean and a pleasure to visit (albeit ridiculous to have to pay to get on). Thank you so much for representing and giving us a view from under the surface, great video!
July 12, 1916 wasthe afternoon that a7-8 foot long bull shark or young Great White Shark killed an 11-year-old boy and the 24-year-old man who tried to recover his body in Matawan Creek, a brackish body of water about 2 and a half miles from the open waters of Raritan Bay. It's a cinch that there were LOTS of sharks in Shark River that year.
I was wondering if this is where that took place.
It’s amazing how clear the water is compared to the 80s! Manasquan, Spring Lake, Brielle since I was a kid! Down the shore has come along way as far as the pollution. The water anyway, the land is a different story
I once a 16 footer white shark heading up the channel got about 100 yards in and turned around to the open sea. But I’ve seen big bulls in there way up the river very aggressive
No you haven't, why lie?
I believe you! I have zero intention of swimming in the ocean. I was always afraid of it & still am
@@justsomeguy6474 he’s not lying, I’ve seen them too. Why are you so skeptical exactly?
@@justsomeguy6474 we caught a 9 foot bull shark 15-20 miles up river before. York River, Virginia.
@@GrabbaBeer Yes I'll believe a Bull shark, they are known to travel in brackish water....GW's are not.
Awesome thanks for the video
I cant believe how clear the water is. Water in New York bight is usually murky because of upwelling of colder water from the continental shelf which flows towards the shore bringing nutrients.
Mostly unpredictable. Rain runoff, winds, currents all affect the vis but sometimes we get lucky.
I thought it looks polluted.
If you go diving off the end of LBI there's sharks down there in sure bc there's a popular shark fishing area down there
LBI is a popular area for sand tigers, I’m not sure why they gravitate here
LBI! Lived there in the 70s
It's a surprise to see tropical looking butterfly(?) fish there.
Each summer around August the spot fin butterflies appear. They get washed up in the gulf stream. Other topicals show up also but the spot fins are abundant on most of the sites. They look very out of place.
@@travelingwithelliot8001 They also die when the cold weather sets in and water temps drop. Many people harvest them for the aquarium trade. At least there they have a chance of surviving.
@@johnsaia9739 I was going to second your comment. I have found them in Raritan Bay tidal pools here in the NY area. As you said sadly they are not a migratory species and perish as the water temperature drops in the fall.
Wow.....this is My State, that's the Inlet I've frequented more than any other! You're just across from an old USCG Station, and some quite decent Viz underwater!!
I dove in once from a pier near Klein's with just goggles....the tide was Fierce!!! I knew it was a Tidal river, bu....I didn't stay long!! Just long enough to photograph some small sea life with seaweed covering so much of the bottom. Any other time, I've been on a fishing boat or my Kayak.
Nonetheless, my FIRST ever NJ Shore #SweetSpot!!
dont kid yourselves any river directly receptacle to the sea Will accommodate the fishes There obtaining various nutrient of the river. Why bet your safety upon pet’ theorisations ?
it is not called the shark river by accident!!!
lolol....of course there are sharks in there often and have been since the start of recorded history; sharks are the ocean's police and garbagemen so they roam far and wide maintaining order and chomping where ever they can.....gorgeous Jersey!!!!
fuck all the haters
I never seen a shark in the river and I live and fish here over 40 years....
Most people don't even know that a shark is around until they are already bitten and bleeding out. You were lucky this time.
Was this pure unsalted water or brackish water?
The stingray says it's salty. 🧂
saltwater river it's right near the ocean.....
Great
Behind the apartments ........ good place in close.... good on weekdays close parking also.
DAMN... lots of fish species
I know it well used to fish thear from land and sometimes on a boat really nice place
In other parts of the world the bull shark is called the Zambezi shark and it's been found far inland in Africa Australia Central America
See any bodies sleeping with the fishes? 🇮🇹
Go watch a whitey documentary and drag the mystic if you want bodies pal
We need to ask Chris Christie.
I went fishing On a little charter boat at sandy hook a few years back and we were catching little sharks it boy did they put up a fight
What kind of fish are the little ones with a strip in the middle?
They are juvenile black seabass
Lived in the area most of my life, supposedly there were sharks a hundred years ago. People do go shark tooth hunting.
You never answered the question, is there sharks in shark river? Skates are related but not the real deal lol.
I hope so but haven't seen them yet. I know there have been dogfish spotted but haven't seen them either. I will keep looking : )
But are there sharks in the Metedeconk River?
What is the species of fish with the horizontal band down the center?
I think those are juvinile black sea bass
so....no sharks. good to know.
Did a few night dives in SRI back in the 1980's...never saw any sharks
Is this where the boys were killed inspiring the movie “Jaws”?
The 1916 shark attacks at the Jersey shore were at ocean beaches and the beaches are just outside the inlet by a few hundred yards. This inlet is at the "jersey shore" but no person would swim here for recreation due to the currents.
LBI is South Jersey. The attacks u are talking about were North Jersey and I think that shark swam up a river. And I think the wrong Belmawr was mentioned here.
Matawan creek
No but isn't this where the 2 boys killed their beautiful class mate and threw her in the river thinking she had a ton of money in her Safe? The one psycho kid got caught because he told his film maker buddy about using the killing as a movie plot?
@@travelingwithelliot8001 there was also 2 people killed in a river.
More fish than some Caribbean reefs.
I think there are!!!
Hard to believe
Since when are there Butterfly Fish in NY/New Jersey Water's ?
They are always here and along the NJ / NY coast late July until October. They get washed up in the gulf stream.
@@travelingwithelliot8001 Good to know
I'm sure you find quite a few bull sharks in that River in New Jersey just like you find a lot of them in estuaries in Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana. I mean they could travel all the way up Mississippi River hang a right on the Missouri then eventually hit the Tennessee River go through all the locks and make it to Lake Guntersville where I live for 8 years in Northeast Alabama which is part of the Tennessee River the reason why I'm saying this is cuz we find a bull shark about 10 years ago in Lake Guntersville. I didn't actually find it but somebody did but they didn't think it was from an aquarium. But of course it's too cold for sharks to exist up there in the winter time it would be too cold for an alligator as well even though they found alligators in North Central Alabama. But hell I mean I've heard of bull sharks being in the Great Lakes making it all the way from the Atlantic Ocean over to there. Those are some very stoic determined and aggressive sharks. They have an amazing ability to adapt
The summer of the shark 1917 they think a Bull shark (most think it was a 9ft great white) killed 2 people in Manasquan inlet about 40 miles north of Shark river. Never caught , we never get bulls this far north (yet)
@@mark-pe3bt, wrong..
Definitely ...l padle board in shark river and saw a baby shark.... ...about 2 1/2 - 3 feet....looked like a bull shark...
I have not doubt they are there, especially with all of the fisherman. I'll keep looking this summer!
Doesn’t seem like you went very far….
All the people who believe that he’s actually in a river 🤦🏻♂️
So no then 😁
Obviously not then 😆
AND...............????
No sharks. Just fish and rays : )
Lol were you not able to figure it out yourself....lol
I do believe there is an old story about a bull shark that went far upstream and killed someone..
I dove jersey for years..When it good, it's great.. Average viz is 15 feet. I seen it way better