SWIMMING IN THE POTOMAC? You are not alone…

This sighting is from Cobb Island in the Potomac River in 2025. You are not alone. The original videographer, believed to be Markus Jarboe, said the shark was looking for lunch near his family pier, and it has also been posted on Facebook under Markus Jarboe.

SHARKS IN THE PATUXENT…you tube and water ski with them…

Larry Newcomer, formerly of St. Mary’s County, sent this message after seeing this article:
Got it, I don’t know if you remember the sharks in the Patuxent River back in the 70’s. I almost hit a couple of them in my little Boston Whaler. When I told people about it, they said that I was crazy, or maybe I saw the wing tips of a skate coming out of the water. Less than a week later, The Enterprise ran pictures of a fisherman who caught a couple in his gill net. Which also had big gaping holes where the big ones had torn through.

Sharks in the Patuxent, But ‘The Biggest One Got Away’

By Richard Polk
Enterprise Staff Writer (August 30, 1973)
Last Thursday, Jim Clements and his crew went fishing for rockfish in the Patuxent River off Esperanza.
They threw their net out and started to haul it in like any normal day, but it became caught on something. So a member of the crew, Joe Bean, waded out to free it.
But he found the net had not become hung on a stump or a rock, but on five bull sharks. One of them started to circle Bean. He stood still, thinking it was a skate. Shark,” Clements said, “he got
out of the water very quickly.”
Clements and his crew started to haul the sharks in, not knowing really what else to do with them. The largest shark “bit the rope and net and got clean away,” Clements related.
One of the other four escaped also, but the fishermen were able to haul the remaining three to shore. On the shore, they snapped like dogs at anyone who passed near them, Clements said.
On shore, Clements still wasn’t really sure what he should do with them. “I didn’t know what kind of shark they were, so I didn’t know how dangerous they could be,” he said. He did admit the sharks scared them a little.
“We’re keeping our eyes open more now,” he added.
Clements then called the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, which sent a crew over to cut out the jaw of one of the sharks for inspection. It was then put in their museum.
According to Martin Wiley, a research assistant professor at the lab, the bull shark is usually found in warm water.
It is one of the few sharks that come into low-salinity areas like the Patuxent.
It is a meat-eater, but it is not usually dangerous to man.
“There have been some reports of bites,” Wiley said, “but they are very rare. The sharks are not considered to be one of the more dangerous ones.”
“They can be dangerous if cornered, though,” he added.
Clements said he was told by the lab that the sharks were not dangerous if they were
“just swimming around,” but they could be dangerous if someone tried to handle them.
When asked if there could be more sharks in the area, Wiley said that there probably were more, but it is hard to say how many. The last time any had been seen in the area was 20 years ago.
The sharks Clements caught were seven feet long and weighed an estimated 250 pounds. As usual, though, the biggest one got away. It was an estimated ten feet long. Clements and his crew went out looking for the two that escaped for two days, but they didn’t see any sign of them