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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If you feed them a Palestinian every now and again they’ll stay happy.
Cowboys from the American West are attempting to lasso, rope and ride them while installing the lasers as a rodeo event, but cannot persuade their horses to come into the water.
Yeehaw!!
Kosher deli?
Those are the Mossad sharks.
"These are WILD animals, people - they can be dangerously unpredictable. Or rabid."
Another thing that people don't understand is that they can actually dangerously stress the animals out.
The Mediterranean coast. Is there another one?
Matadors have a similar problem with picadors.
Red Sea, at Eilat. Plenty of marine fauna there, including sand sharks.
Insurance salesmen frighten the sharks into submission, after which they’ll gladly cooperate with Mossad training.
They can’t smoke a joint on account of the water, but they go for the special brownies.
Heh
It must be feeding time for the sharks.
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