Bagnants in water to film the sharks, despite the prohibitions. One is missing, perhaps it was attacked

Despite being prohibited by the authorities, many people venture into the water in the hope of a close encounter with sharksnear the Israeli beach of Di Hadera. And they do not just immerse themselves in waters that predators have attended for years now, attracted by the highest temperatures due to the exhausts of a nearby power plant. They go much further, trying to film and touch the animals, especially their fins. Someone, to get more chances to do it, even comes to throw them some food. A wrong behavior, both from the point of view of safety and from the ethological, but above all dangerous. Let’s also say irresponsible. And it is no coincidence that in these days the police are looking for A man who is missing And that may have been the victim of an attack.

There are still no traces of the disappeared person and it is not known if it has been actually attacked. It is not known even if it was part of a group that has been seen closer the sharks and if he was also holding an incorrect attitude. But it is dispersed precisely in that area and it is there that research is concentrated. The whole area has been circumscribed and the interdicted bathing. In the water now only the patrol boats and water motorcycles of the coast guard are moved.

In that mirror of water the animals used to meet in period from October to May. The predatory gathering – which in this case are brown sharks And gray sharksboth quite rare species – always recalls a large amount of curious, which are not made problems to enter the water to be able to see them or resume closely, as the images spread from France Presse. The media have also shown a movie in which you can see a specimen swimming towards bathers, immersed in water to the thighs, and in which the rumors of people who minimize the danger are heard: « What? Are you afraid of sharks? ». Danger that is not underestimated by the authorities that once more have reiterated that these animals should never be approached.

The animal rights groups also underlined it, worried about the well -being of animals and for interference with their existence, which for some time ask for the prohibitions to be respected and that every type of contact with humans is forbidden. But the experience of a face to face It is considered by many essential. «But like all wild animals – he reiterated Yigael Ben-Aihead of the coast guard of the authority of parks and nature – Sharks are unpredictable. And we must behave accordingly ».

In Israel, the attacks by sharks are very rare. If this were confirmed as such, it would be the third ever. And of the previous two only one was fatal and dates back to the 1940s. However thetoo casual attitude of manyin times when social networks seem to authorize new limits, could end up modifying statistics. At the moment, in any case, there is still no trace of the missing and there is no evidence, if not the circumstances and the context, that they can give the certainty that it has been really attacked. Research continues.