Archive for the 'Sightings' Category
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Beaches for several miles north of Island Beach State Park were closed for hours yesterday after two sharks were spotted swimming near the shorelines.
Surfers first reported five-foot-long sharks just off the surf break around 10 a.m. at Seaside Park. The sharks cruised the beach for about four hours, at some points coming as close as about 20 yards offshore.
Seaside Park beaches were reopened about 2 p.m., but reports of what are believed to be the same sharks closed down beaches at Seaside Heights, the next town north on the coast, for much of the afternoon.
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
| Dozens of sharks follow fish fleeing oil spill to Alabama shoreline |
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Video footage shot on June 18 by Ben Raines of the Press-Register and uploaded the following day captured both oil in the water and a Gulf water teeming with sharks.
There were 20 or more sharks at a time in shallow water off the coast of Alabama, and most of them were more than 5 feet long. Several were 8 feet or larger. Whether they were driven toward shore by low oxygen in deeper water remains an open question. But, there were definitely an unusually high number of sharks swimming just off the beach.
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Thanks Rex
Monday, June 21st, 2010
A man caught a 5-foot, black-tipped shark just off the shore on Jacksonville Beach, FL over the weekend.
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
The US Coast Guards from New Hampshire spotted two sharks in the water about a mile and a half off shore near York, Maine. Watch the video.
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Watch your backs! A local surfer has seen a dozen sharks recently off the coast of L.A. He even got a few of them on tape last Friday, before the Memorial Day weekend.
Thanks Sully
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
A shark sighting forced the cancellation of the annual Tamarama to Clovelly ocean swim halfway through the event.
Race director Joel Turner said about half of the 850 or so entrants were not able to swim out after a shark was spotted off Bronte Beach in Sydney’s east about 12.30pm.
About 100 swimmers were escorted to shore by race officials part way through the course. Nobody got eaten though.
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Two sharks were found by some boaters recently in the Tennessee River in west Tennessee.
The first one was discovered on March 14 and another one was found on Monday. The sharks were found five miles apart and both were already dead.
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
A Melbourne beach was evacuated after a resident in a high-rise apartment spotted a shark swimming close to shore.
The unconfirmed sighting at Middle Park beach comes one day after an 8ft shark swam within 15ft of swimmers at the Brighton Pier.
A Victoria Police spokesman said officers were called to Middle Park about 1.15pm after a man reported seeing a 6ft shark in the water.
The police airwing also conducted sweeps over the beach, however it was unable to spot the shark.
The beach was closed for about two hours.
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
An 8ft shark was spotted swimming around the pier at Brighton Beach this morning, about 15ft away from swimmers.
The shark was spotted by a woman running on the pier, who immediately reported the sighting.
There were about four or five people in the water near the shark, totally unaware until someone pointed it out. They left the water unharmed.
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