No, wait, this is the real anniversary of the Global Financial Crisis

NEW YORK (Aug 25): Just five minutes before Monday’s solar eclipse, hundreds of beachgoers along the Cape Cod National Seashore were donning special glasses and positioning empty cereal boxes with pinholes in them, tittering with anticipation to see the moon begin to blot out much of the sun. As a result, they missed something far more exciting some 10 yards offshore.

A hungry great white shark was attacking a harbor seal. It snatched the poor creature in its jaws and hurled it toward the shore, in between body-surfing and boogie-boarding youngsters. Those, like my son, who had been watching the water, saw the seal breach out of a foaming commotion of water and blood and yelled "Shark!"

But the majority of folks on Nauset Beach, including the lifeguards focused on the safety of swimmers, missed the great white itself. They only saw the dying seal with its blubbery entrails visible as it swam in hobbled fashion along the surf, leaving a thick trail of blood in the water. That was the end of the beach day as the authorities, now in great abundance, prohibited further swimming.

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