The Harmless Shark Traditional Cache
The Artful Dodgers: This one keeps getting muggled and there is now an earth-cache nearby so its time to retire my first ever cache.
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Don't be scared by this beach's name Australia has lots of harmless sharks and it's quite safe in the water. In fact the last fatal shark attack in Sydney was in 1963.
The Whale Shark, Basking Shark, Angel Shark, Nurse Shark, Port Jackson Shark, Blind Shark, Leopard Shark, Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Lemon Shark, False Catshark, Thresher Shark, Zebra Shark, Necklace Carpet Shark Spiny Pigmy Shark and the common saw Shark are all listed as harmless to humans.
"The Shark Research Institute says on its website that most of the incidents in the Florida-based global shark attack file "have nothing to do with predation".
Unlike fat seals - the preferred meal of sharks like the great white - humans are bony with not much fat. Sharks use various sensors to hunt their prey and a quick bite will tell it whether it has found a good meal.
Usually when a shark bites a human it then swims off. Unfortunately for humans, sharks are big and people are small, so a large shark bite can mean death from rapid loss of blood.
"Sharks are opportunistic feeders. They hear us in the water, we sound like a thrashing fish or animal in the water, and they just react to that instinctively and go to take a bite," marine analyst Greg Pickering "
Australian Sharks are protected by law and attach a $250,000 for killing a the endangered Grey Nurse Shark.
Enjoy your swim at this great Harbor Beach.
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