Hai spotted in front of the Belgian-French coast
Large excitement on the French North Sea beach: off the coast of the French seaside resorts Bray-Dunes and Zuidkote, a few kilometers from the Belgian border, a shark was spotted in the water. The police asked swimmers to leave the water.
There was a lot going on on the beaches of the two coastal communities on Sunday due to the pleasant early summer weather, and some swimmers also frolicked in the water of the North Sea. But around 3 p.m. there was about ten emergency calls from the police and fire brigade – the callers wanted to have spotted a shark lick near Bray -Dunes. The Belgian « Nieuwsblad » quotes a spokesman for the local fire brigade: « If only one had called, we would have believed in a joke, but with ten individual calls we take a situation like this very seriously. »
The fire brigade and police went to the beaches with a larger contingent of forces and warned the bathers. Anyone who was still in the water was ordered ashore. Because there were no further sightings, the alarm was lifted around 5 p.m. Nobody was injured.
Which shark types can be considered
It is not known for which Haiart (or other sea creatures) it was. Loud Information from the « Shark Foundation » Could be able to come into question: In front of the French-Belgian coast, sightings of the small-spotted cat shark, the thorn shark, the smooth shark or the herring shark would be possible, if not often. All species mentioned are no danger for people.
Apparently, however, encounters with smaller sharks on this coastal section are not very rare: The Facebook page « Les Dunes de Flandre » suspects in a posting on Monday that on Sunday a Dornhai, also called « Chien de Mer », triggered the alarm – two specimens were already stranded at the same place in early May.
The news portal “Lille Actu”, meanwhile, reports on a dog sharka walker dead at the Bray-Dunes beach at the end of April.
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Photo: Curious Female School Shark Investigates Research Equipment.jpg / Wikimedia Commons / Ashliejmcivor / CC BY-SA 4.0
