Posted on 06/09/2024 5:41:47 AM PDT by suthener
WALTON COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG)- The Walton County Sheriff’s Office beach marine unit continued to monitor the shoreline Saturday, following two shark attacks that sent three people to the hospital Friday.
Saturday, the beaches on the panhandle remain closed.
According to the Walton County Sheriff’s Facebook page, deputies found a 14-foot hammerhead shark east of South County Highway 395 in Santa Rosa Beach, but they stated it is not an uncommon sighting.
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What a blessing that these docs, and, other medical personnel just happened to be in the water/at the beach, at the time, to help save this young girl’s life.
God bless those victims.
“if the undertoad don’t get you, the sharks will.”
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I’d never want to be in the vicinity of an undertoad!
Those undertoads are hughe and series.....
You know they actually fly flags to let you know how bad the undertoads are.
“Undertoad flags on the beach
Undertoad flags are an essential part of beach safety, indicating the conditions of the water and warning swimmers of potential hazards. According to the search results, there is no specific flag designated solely for undertoads. However, the presence of a double red flag is a clear indication of high winds and undertoad currents, meaning the water is closed to the public and absolutely no swimming is allowed”
We often spent long weekends and vacation on the Gulf Coast. Walking the beach, we came upon a dead shark (about a six-footer). Cause of death...an obviously much bigger shark had taken a chomp out of the smaller sharks mid-section.
Yup...plenty of sharks on the Gulf.
There was a shark attack in Galveston last week as well. Small shark on a teenage girl. She survived.
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Why can’t we have some shark comtrol, kill a few hundred sharks of the dangerous variety until the attack numbers are reduced?
I never go unarmed where I’m not the top predator. It’s hard to pack heat in the ocean.
Mr. Undertoad's Wild Ride
Re: Not uncommon
For some reason, I have always thought hammerhead sharks were cold or cool water fish.
I lived in Florida for decades and do not recall ever hearing about hammerheads in the Gulf of Mexico, and only rarely on the Atlantic coast.
The water off Fort Walton Beach is warm about nine months a year - and, definitely warm in June.
“I lived in Florida for decades and do not recall ever hearing about hammerheads in the Gulf of Mexico, and only rarely on the Atlantic coast.”
Historically, Hammerheads have been responsible for 8% of the shark attacks in Florida.
“For some reason, I have always thought hammerhead sharks were cold or cool water fish.”
Hammerheads prefer warmer waters.
Hammerheads can be found pretty much in all coastal areas of the western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean from Nova Scotia to Argentina.
They also breed in the baja gulf.
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