SHARK ALERT IN DEVON ENGLAND

GREAT WHITE SHARK ALERT 

UPDATE:  25 July 2013 -- In the last few weeks quite a number of killer sharks were spotted off the South Coast of England. It is due to the exceptional hot summer which made the sea warm up more and the herring followed down south. 


UPDATE September 5, 2012

A few weeks ago one was caught on the coast of Devon and a few days ago one at the coastal area of Scotland.

In recent years shark alerts are coming more and more frequent. Again there was a shark alert on North Devon coast.  One of the people was raising the alarm after spotting a shark fin close to the Croyde Bay.

The lifeguards of the RNLI advised people to get out of the water. The fin was seen so close that it was within the “safe swimmer zone.”

The Conservation charity ‘The Shark Trust’ doesn’t think it was a basking shark. Basking sharks are harmless and filter their food. They are called the “gentle giants”.

An RNLI spokesman said: “It’s not unusual for there to be sharks and while this species of basking sharks  is harmless, lifeguards maintain a watchful eye for all aquatic hazards.”

As mentioned earlier sharks seems to visiting British waters more frequently. The Conservationists and experts can’t quite agree to the reason for the increase.

At the beginning of the month, the Cornwall Wildlife Trust stated that the sharks were back in Cornish waters in greater numbers than they had seen them in the last summer.  They counted 28 sightings in June alone. They were basking sharks and they are known to be harmless.