Authoritiesare using boats to patrol the ocean and warning swimmers about sharksthis weekend along Florida’s Gulf Coast, where a woman and two teenagegirls were hurt in two separate shark attacks on Friday.
By Jeff Martin, Associated PressFILE - People walk along the shoreline in Navarre Beach, Fla., on Wednesday March 27, 2013. Authorities are warning of shark dangers this weekend along Florida’s Gulf Coast, where three people were hurt in two separate shark attacks Friday, June 7, 2024.
“All I can say is that these incidents are very rare,” said Demian Chapman, a scientist and director of the Center for Shark Research at the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida. “Please swim carefully today, respect the Gulf, stay hydrated, and look out for your loved ones,” the fire department said on social media.“Purple Flags indicate the presence of dangerous marine life and single red flags indicate high hazard conditions,” the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post on Saturday.
Less than two hours later, firefighters responded to another beach about 4 miles east of the first attack “following multiple reports of a teenager injured by a shark,” the sheriff’s office said. The two teenagers are from Mountain Brook, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham, Mountain Brook City Manager Sam Gaston told the news siteThere’s no way of knowing whether it was one shark or two separate ones involved in Friday’s attacks, but there are more sharks in the Gulf of Mexico than in past years, Chapman said.
On Saturday, Walton County sheriff’s deputies patrolling the waters in a boat spotted a 14-foot hammerhead shark near Santa Rosa Beach, which they said is not unusual. Sheriff’s officials say they don’t know what type of shark attacked the swimmers on Friday.
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