A 12-foot great white shark was spotted Sunday in the waters off Island Beach State Park in Berkeley Township, N.J., according to the Berkeley-NJ Patch.
The Coast Guard confirmed that a boater reported seeing the shark about 200 feet off the shore.
[source]
An 11.5-foot Great White Shark was spotted lurking less than 30 feet away from the shoreline off the coast of Australia.
The shark was seen at the same beach where a wakeboarder was mauled last month.
Tracey Lowe filmed the massive fish on her digital camera.
She had been celebrating her wedding anniversary at Hawk’s Nest, just north of Newcastle, when she saw a shadow in the surf.
“We were just about to dive into that area when we saw the shadows moving around,” Lowe said.
Palm Beach’s Midtown Beach is closed for swimming Friday morning, after the town’s Ocean Rescue spotted more sharks off the coast Thursday.
The sign on the beach says it all, “No Swimming, SHARKS.”
Officials say as long as the sharks are in the area, the beach will remain closed.
An estimated tens of thousands of sharks were spotted earlier this week about 100 yards off the coast of Palm Beach.
This time of year sharks migrate to warmer waters and swim close to the shoreline to find food easily.
Experts say these particular sharks are most likely spinner sharks, between 3 to 7 feet long.
While Midtown Beach is closed, Phipps Ocean Park on Palm Beach remained open for swimming.
[source]
Pilot Steve Irwin was flying about 100 yards off of Palm Beach, FL when he spotted thousands of sharks.
He pulled out his iPhone recorded this video…
Thanks Kim
An 8 ft shark was spotted yesterday at an Australia beach around 11am, forcing beaches to be closed for several hours.
The shark, which they have been unable to identify, was spotted at Cottesloe beach as close as 100 metres off shore.
The sighting comes after a group of great white and tiger sharks was seen last week feeding off a baby whale carcass near Rottnest Island.
Check out these photos of up to 30 sharks chowing down on a whale off the coast of South Africa. Scientists towed the carcass of a Bryde’s whale to Seal Island near Cape Town, to monitor the feeding behaviour of the great white shark. What did they learn? Well, the sharks didn’t fight each other for the food, and they tested each part before eating it.
Michael Maguire of Morningside said he was kayaking along Norman Creek in Brisbane, AU at about 7.10am when he saw a “very big fish” in the water. It was bigger than his kayak and the fin came about 12 to 18 inches out of the water. Maguire paddled over to a jetty and hung on.
Being a teacher, Maguire said his first concern was the risk to children playing in the water and people dangling their feet in the creek from jetties.
Sharks have been seen diving out of the water for bats, fueling speculation that this behavior is a new way for them to find prey. Dog owners have been warned to keep animals away from the river banks at sunrise and sunset.
[source]
University of Central Florida student Kris Kerr was swimming with his camera in the inlet at New Smyrna Beach this past weekend when he said mullet started leaping out of the water. That’s when a 6-foot shark made a beeline directly toward him.
According to Wesh.com, Kerr said he was able to snap a picture of the shark before punching the shark in the side of the head. He said he thinks it was a bull shark. Kerr said Surfer Magazine may be using his picture for a two-page spread.
[source]
A massive Tiger Shark feeding frenzy was spotted off the southern Queensland coast.
The rescue helicopter crew who filmed the sharks said they spotted more than a hundred of them encircling fishes in a long stretch of the coastal area in Noosa. The night crew were flying back from Fraser Island when they noticed the feeding sharks just 20 metres off the beach at Teewah.
Luckily, there were no swimmers in the vicinity but local life guards were alerted of their presence.
[source]
You are currently browsing the Swim At Your Own Risk weblog archives for the Sightings category.
