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[Rocky]

Sharks have been seen off our coast for years, but yesterday a 500+ pound, 10+foot long, tagged great white was roaming around our harbour.
It seems the tag transmitted a sign which gave it away.
A huge effort has been made in recent years to clean up the harbour and make it fit for swimming, but I think swimming may be on hold for a while

 

[CarlS]

We have had some great whites right along the shore in the New Smyrna Beach area. I have zero desire to swim with a great white - or any other shark!

 

[Greyfell]

A sport fishing company, out of Berkeley, CA, was pulled around San Francisco Bay for about 2 miles when a great white latched on to their bait. Fisherman in Awe

 

[Qship]

There has been the odd one in the Bay of Fundy as well.

 

[Greyfell]

We have had some great whites right along the shore in the New Smyrna Beach area. I have zero desire to swim with a great white - or any other shark!

We definitely hear more about the Great White, thanks to the movie "Jaws". Lately, I read that the most common of shark bites, along U.S. coasts, are by another variety of shark, the black-tip shark, which is common to New Smyrna Beach, near Daytona Beach, FL.

 

[CarlS]

We definitely hear more about the Great White, thanks to the movie "Jaws". Lately, I read that the most common of shark bites, along U.S. coasts, are by another variety of shark, the black-tip shark, which is common to New Smyrna Beach, near Daytona Beach, FL.

You are spot on. You can add nurse sharks to that. I do swim at New Smyrna Beach routinely.

 

[DaveM]

We have a lot of them along our coastal areas, there have been a few attacks people as well.

They don't come into my yard so I stay out of theirs