BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 24, 2022
Eddie Monat, a commercial diver from Bar Harbor who operates a nature tour boat in the summer, has had a few encounters with sharks over the years. Earlier this month, he was rammed twice by what he thinks was a porbeagle shark while he was using an underwater camera to show his customers on his boat what kind of marine life dwells at the bottom of Frenchman Bay. Monat, who dives year round, is not concerned. Shark attacks are extremely rare. He says he also was bit by a seal earlier this summer, but he thinks it was meant to be playful, not menacing. He wasn’t injured by the seal.