Sand devil length and at least in weight. The sand devil is found in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to the Florida Keys, where it is fairly common. It also occurs in the northern Gulf of Mexico, and there are additional unconfirmed records from Cuba, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The southern extent of its range is uncertain due to confusion with the disparate angelshark ("S. heteroptera") and Mexican angelshark ("S. mexicana"). This bottom-dwelling shark is found over sandy or muddy bottoms on the continental shelf and slope. Off the eastern United States, the sand devil has been documented to migrate seasonally.
Macquarie Harbour Penal Station to provide shelter for the shipyards from the roaring forties blowing up the harbour. As Sarah Island could not produce food, malnutrition, dysentery, and scurvy were often rampant among the convict population. The penal colony had to be supplied by sea. Living conditions were particularly bad in the early years of the settlement. The settlement was so crowded, convicts were unable to sleep on their backs in the communal barracks. Punishment involved solitary confinement and regular floggings - 9,100 lashes were given in 1823. In 1824 a prisoner named Trenham killed another convict in order to be executed rather than