Israeli police have traveled the Mediterranean coast for a swimmer who, fearing, may have been attacked by a shark, in an area that has long seen close meetings between marine predators and beach enthusiasts who sometimes look for them.
A thrill of shortbread sharks and endangered sand banks swimming near the region for years, attracting spectators who approach sharks and draw calls from conservation groups so that the authorities separate people from the wild animal.
Nature groups say that these warnings have remained incapable. The police and rescuers launched a search along the coast after reporting that a shark attacked a swimmer on a beach near the city of Hadera. Israel’s fire and rescue authority announced on Tuesday afternoon that it had found remains of an organization, which was brought to the Medico-Legal Institute for identification.
The beach was closed on Tuesday as the research teams used boats and underwater equipment to find the man. The identity of man was not immediately known, but the Israeli media said that he had gone to swim with the sharks.
The Israelis flocked to large numbers to the beach during a week’s vacation, sharing waters with a dozen or more sharks. Some have shot the Sharks’ fins, while others threw fish to eat them.
Dark sharks can reach four meters long and weigh around 350 kilograms. The sand sharks are smaller, reaching approximately 2.5 meters and 100 kilograms.
Yigael Ben-Ari, head of the Navy Strength Ranger of the nature Israel Nature and Parks, said that he did not know how man behaved around the sharks. But he said that the public should know not to enter the water when sharks are present and not to touch or play with them.
Witnesses report see sharks in the region
A video shared by the Israeli media has shown a shark swim to bathers in the deep water of the thighs.
“What a huge shark!” The turning man exclaims, while the shark approaches him. “Whoa! He comes to us!”
“Don’t move!” He implores a standing boy nearby, who replies: “I’m leaving.”
The man then asks: “What, are you afraid of sharks?”
The behavior, some of which were observed by a photographer from the Associated Press two days before the attack, stole against the councils of the Parks Authority.
“Like each wild animal, the behavior of Sharks can be unpredictable,” the authority said in a press release.
It would only be the third shark attack recorded in Israel, according to Ben-Ari. A person was killed in an attack in the 1940s.
The area, where lukewarm water released by a neighboring power plant flows into the sea, has attracted dozens of sharks for years between October and May. Ben-Ari said that swimming is prohibited in the region, but swimmers enter the water anyway.
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The attacks of sharks against humans are often the result of an erroneous identity, when they confuse a swimming human or a surfboard for a seal or a sea lion. The researchers have discovered that a luminous LED light pattern can break the visual pattern of a swimmer so that they are less like the usual prey of a shark. Dr. Lucille Chapuis was part of the team that tested various models of lights from Seal Island, South Africa. Their research has been published in current biology.
“It would have been appropriate to take measures to preserve and regulate public security, but over the years, chaos has developed in the region,” said the company for nature protection in Israel, an environmental group, in a statement.
He said that fishermen, boats, divers, surfers and divers have recovered dangerously with a wild animal that “is not used to being around the crowd”.
The group said that other steps were necessary to prevent similar incidents, such as the designation of a safe area from which people could see the sharks without swimming near them.
The Israeli authorities closed the beach on Monday and others nearby, and they remained closed on Tuesday.
