This picture taken on April 20, 2021 shows an aerial view of people using their phones and cameras to film a shark swimming past in the shallow Mediterranean Sea water off the Israeli coastal town of Hadera north of Tel Aviv JACK GUEZ AFP
Posted on 04/21/2021 1:52:04 PM PDT by SJackson
This picture taken on April 20, 2021 shows an aerial view of people using their phones and cameras to film a shark swimming past in the shallow Mediterranean Sea water off the Israeli coastal town of Hadera north of Tel Aviv JACK GUEZ AFP
Dozens of sharks gathered Tuesday in warm waters of the Mediterranean near an Israeli power plant, drawing sightseers in what has become an annual occurence.
The sharks' fins sliced through the swallow waters just metres (yards) away from bathers eager to take photos of them near the city of Hadera.
Sandbar and dusky sharks, which are known to frequent the waters, can grow up to three metres (10 feet) in length.
The sharks gather each year near where the power plant's hot water outlet gushes into the Mediterranean Sea.
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority warned both amateur and professional divers against swimming with the creatures.
"The interaction with sharks is neither predictable or controllable, and in recent days there has also been a change in the sharks' behaviour," the authority wrote.
The sharks are endangered and it is illegal to harm, feed or harass them, the authority added.
Most of those in the waters off Hadera on Tuesday were dusky sharks, though some were the slightly smaller sandbar sharks, said Aviad Scheinin, an expert on apex predators at the University of Haifa.
In the Mediterranean, the sandbars are endangered and there is not enough data on the dusky sharks to determine their status, he told AFP.
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I'll resist commenting on the intelligence of the photographers. But if one of the sharks is hungry and has a drumstick, do you or your estate pay a fine for feeding the endangered sharks?
If an Arab is bit I'll be posting a thread about the man eating Israeli attack sharks.
Were they wearing laser beams on their foreheads?
He was a nice shark. We never had any trouble with him. He was planning to go on tour with four other sharks. At their age it's a common dream, and he was just getting ready to realize it.
Just sad really...
No information provided about the three victims.
Is that you Dr. Evil?
Don’t reveal my secret!
Or I shall require...One MILLION dollars!!!!!!!!!
Oh my.
There’s not enough sand in the Mediterranean.
I wonder where they could get more sand?
“Don’t pet the bison”
A million dollars isn’t exactly a lot of money these days. The federal government has already spent over 4 trillion dollars since January 20th. (My impersonation of Number 2)
I wish I could LOL but just yesterday I had to go warn a neighbor (with her children) to stay away from a fox wandering around in broad daylight near people and dogs.
Hehehe
O.K. I’ll take 4 trillion dollars.
I wanna get a Big Mac with the large fries and super-size the Coke.
“Oh no! We are running out of sand for the Sand Sharks! What shall we do?”
“Start calling them Mud Sharks?”
We have been working on calming down the Killer Whales.
We now call them Slightly Vexed Whales.
That seems to be working.
What about ill-tempered sea bass.
Ah, so this is how the IDF trains the sharks. Clever.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3995302,00.html
I thought they were mutated?
I wouldn’t get that close even for a great picture. But we took a trip to New Orleans a few weeks ago. Took a swamp tour, and the guide lures alligators out with food. I was so engrossed in videoing one that was coming towards me at the back of the boat, I didn’t think that leaning out of the boat the alligator saw my arm as a tasty dish, lol. My son yelled and pulled me back and then the guide reminded everyone not to lean out of the boat, lol.
They are in the choir with the Sea Sopranos and Sea Tenors.
France’s Macron Wants Change In Law After Top Court Lets Off Jewish Woman’s Killer Because He Was On Weed
President Emmanuel Macron urged a change in French law after a man who murdered a Jewish woman in 2017 avoided a trial on the grounds he acted in delirium due to drug-taking, in an interview published Monday.
Jewish groups have reacted with outrage to the decision by France’s highest court on Wednesday that Kobili Traore was not criminally responsible for the murder in 2017 of Sarah Halimi.
Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman, died in 2017 after being pushed out of the window of her Paris flat by neighbour Traore, 27, who shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic).
While the French court was preoccupied with the killer’s drug use, it failed to take his jihadist ideology or his antisemitic motives into account.
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