Israeli police searched the Mediterranean coast for a swimmer who are afraid to have been attacked by a shark, in an area that has long been nearing meetings between marine and beach predators who are sometimes looking for them.
A dark shark shiver and sandbar has been swimming for years near the area, attracting viewers approaching sharks and reasons of conservation groups for authorities to separate people from the wild animal.
Natural groups say these warnings were not without being. Police and rescue workers 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 he had found remains of a body, which was taken to the Forensic Institute for Identification.
The beach closed on Tuesday when search teams used submarine ships and equipment to look for the man. The identity of the man was not immediately known, but the Israeli media said he had swam with the sharks.
The Israelis approached a large number on the beach for a week holiday, sharing the waters with a dozen or more sharks. Some threw the soils of the sharks, while others threw fish to eat.
Dark sharks can grow up to four meters long and weigh about 350 kilograms. The sand sharks are smaller, they grow up to about 2.5 meters and 100 kilograms.
Yigael Ben-Ari, responsible for the marine force of Israeli nature and Parks authority, said that it was not known how man behaved around sharks. But he said that the audience should know how to get into the water when the sharks are present and not touching them or playing with them.
Witnesses report to see the sharks in the area
A video shared by the Israeli media showed a shark swimming to swimmers with deep water from the thigh.
« What a big shark! » The man who films exclaims, as the shark approaches. « Whoa! He’s going to us! »
« Don’t move! » It involves a boy who is near, who responds, « I’m leaving. »
The man asks him, « What, are you afraid of sharks? »
The behavior, some of whom witnessed an associated press photographer two days before the attack, flew in front of the Parks authority advice.
« Like all wild animals, the behavior of sharks can be unpredictable, » the authority said in a statement.
This would be only the third shark attack on Israel, according to Ben-Ari. A person was killed in an attack in the 1940’s.
The area, where lukewarm water released by a nearby electric power station flows into the sea, has been attracted for years to dozens of sharks between October and May. Ben-Ari said that swimming is banned in the area, but swimmers enter water anyway.
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« It would have been appropriate to take measures to preserve and regulate public security, but over the years chaos has developed in the area, » said the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, an environmental group, in a statement.
He said that fishermen, ships, divers, surfers and dives were dangerously interspersed with a wild animal that « is not used to being around crowds of people. »
The group said that additional steps were needed to prevent similar incidents, such as designating a safe area from where people could see sharks without swimming near them.
Israeli authorities closed the beach on Monday and others near, and remained closed on Tuesday.
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