Tiburón!!

That’s spanish for “Shark!!” and you might hear someone yelling it if happen to hit the beaches of Spain this summer. The number of sharks spotted at Spanish beaches has dramatically increased over the past few years. In 2003, three were seen, in 2004, five were reported and in 2005 and 2006, only two were spotted each year.

But this past year, at least 20 sharks were recorded in Mediterranean waters off the Catalan coast.

There’s also been an increasing number of giant rays, not to mention the regular jellyfish invasions that plague Spanish beaches each summer.

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