A drone took pictures of Sharks swim near sunbathers on a Fort Lauderdale beachSouth Florida, last Saturday.
In the video captured by AVPDrone.com and shared by news channel Local10 News, there are several sharks a few meters from the shore of the beach, in the area of the intersection of Las Olas Boulevard and A1A.
People didn’t seem to notice the sharks’ presence and kept swimming.
On Local10 News’ Facebook profile, several users pointed out that shark proximity to shore is more common during certain times of the year.
Others jokingly noted that sharks inhabit the ocean where you would otherwise expect them to be.
However, at another event on the same Saturday, things weren’t quite up to the luck of Fort Lauderdale’s bathers. This Monday we found out A 10-year-old boy lost part of a leg after a shark attack while diving in the Florida Keys.
Jameson Reeder Jr. was snorkeling last Saturday when the shark attacked him. A surgeon had to amputate his leg below the knee.
The close proximity of these animals to Florida beaches has been in the news on previous occasions. So far this year there have been 29 shark attacks in the United States, according to Tracking Sharks website; Eighteen of those incidents occurred in Florida, six in New York, three in South Carolina and two in California.
Earlier this month, a teenager was bitten in the face by a shark while fishing for lobster in the Florida Keys. A nurse shark had latched onto the 13-year-old boy’s lip and he began screaming in fear.
“I saw [langosta] big and I took it with my hand. When I came to the surface I felt a small bump on the back of my leg, I looked back and the shark was already in my face,” Fischer Hricko said after the event.
In July, at the same place, A shark attacked a 30-year-old woman who swam The victim was bitten on the leg but survived thanks to the response of those present in the area and the rescue teams.
According to the sources who shared the news, the woman was on a boat on Summerland Key, an island in the lower Florida Keys about 20 miles (32 km) east of Key West. The bather jumped out of the boat and when she emerged she had a large laceration on her leg.
His companions bandaged his leg and put pressure on the wound to prevent bleeding while they called the emergency teams.
2021, Florida was the place with the most shark attacks unprovoked worldwide.
Internationally, the United States was the country with the most Shark Attacks unprovoked occurred last year with 47 recorded bites, accounting for 64 percent of the total. Of those 47 attacks, only one was fatal.
According to experts, there has been a slight increase in shark bite-related deaths compared to previous years. However, they assured that the risk of being bitten by this animal was “extremely small”.