Aussie witnesses incredible moment in shallows at remote beach
Bonita was lounging under a sunshade at 80 Mile Beach in Western Australia last week when her partner Dylan shouted her over, telling her to come quick. As she dashed over, she caught sight of a fin peaking out of the water.
"I saw it for a split second, and then it disappeared for a bit," Bonita told Yahoo News. "My partner [had been] fishing, and another man came along, they started chatting, and then out in front of them, they spotted the shark."
Minutes later, the trio managed to spot the shark, thought to be a hammerhead, again, and Bonita ran down after it, explaining it was "so strange to see such a big shark" up close and personal.
"I went running down to it and that's when I filmed... it stayed in the shallows for ages. It was there for a really long time, obviously just hunting for fish and stuff," she said.
The fisherman Bonita and Dylan met at the beach explained it was likely a hammerhead they had spotted as he had caught and released one earlier in the day, further up the beach. "It was kind of hard to see in my video, we couldn't really see its head, because the like water so murky there," she said.
Many hammerhead shark species live in the waters along the WA coastline and populations are in decline, with the sharks susceptible to getting caught in fishing nets due to the unique shape of their head.
Shark scientist Dr Leonardo Guida previously told Yahoo News Australia often don't survive when released back into the water — unlike other sharks.
There's often only a "90-second to two-minute" window before hammerheads have real difficulties returning to the water," NT-based shark wrangler Alexander Mulligan, previously told Yahoo. After that, their "muscles seize", preventing them from swimming, which often results in them sinking to the bottom and drowning.
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It's not the first time an Aussie has been stunned by a shark swimming in the shallows, with beachgoer Taylor being treated to not one but two sharks in the shallows last October along WA's north-west coast.
The sharks appeared to be fighting one another but darted away after being startled by Taylor's intrigue. However, marine biologist Lawrence Chlebeck previously told Yahoo News the sharks were likely engaging in a courting ritual.
"Never seen that before," Taylor gushed.
Last week, a group of holidaying Australians received the shock of their lives over the weekend when they arrived at a beach in the country's south for a swim, only to spot a "massive" four-metre great white shark cruising through the shallows.
Despite many people imagining sharks only swimming in the open ocean, there are many instances of sharks swimming in the shallows for a number of reasons such as mating, hunting and even temperature regulation.
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