The director of a renowned shark research center in California shared how to stay safe and the importance of not panicking if you encounter a shark at the beach this summer season.
Chris Lowe, the director of the Shark Lab at Cal State University Long Beach , told Fox News Digital that sharks will act aggressively when they feel threatened by humans."If an animal feels threatened, it will act aggressively," he said. "If you chase a cat down an alley, and you corner it, it will arch its back and raise its fur."It will act aggressively to try to scare you off," Lowe said.
"If they're going to investigate something, they're going to investigate it from behind because that's the safest way to do that."Lowe said that an aggressive shark can be identified if it's "rapidly coming in and then zipping away.""What an aggressive shark looks like is its rapidly coming in and then zipping away and coming in closer and zipping away or circling and getting closer and closer," Lowe said.
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