Thousands of Sharks Close Down Florida Beaches

Check out the amazing video at the bottom of this post of literally thousands of sharks swimming around Florida’s Broward and South Beach. With Spring Break just around the corner, this is probably the worst time of the year for the amount of visitors that are expected to be hitting the beaches soon. Thankfully the sharks are thousands of non dangerous blacktip and spinner sharks, who are making their annual migration north.

Researchers have been tracking the colony for over two years, and claim that the sharks should have all left the Florida coast within the next month, as they like to spend the summer months in the warm waters just off the coast of Georgia. Those sharks may not be dangerous, but I sure as heck wouldn’t be running to the sea with delight knowing there were literally thousands of sharks in the water!

Shari Tellman from Florida Atlantic Research Laboratory, said –

The sharks are not predatory, at least as far as humans are concerned, and in clear water are far more likely to just swim away. The only real issue would be if the water’s murky and there’s case of mistaken identity, or a shark just bumps into you, because they have very rough skin. When they are together in a big group there’s always the possibility of larger sharks being nearby, but there’s only a small chance of any problem. They come down in the late fall when it starts getting colder, they’re very visible here during the winter hanging around and enjoying the warmer temperatures, and in the spring they turn around and start heading back north again,” It’s their annual migration pattern. It looks spectacular but it’s part of their normal behaviour.

Pretty amazing eh? Sharks get a bit of a bad rep in my opinion. I mean, yes, a Great White will definitely eat you, sure, but most of them are just going about their daily business. Including these lot. Sharks live in the sea, so when we enter their habitat, surely it’s at our own risk. If you don’t want to get eaten by a shark, stay on the land folks, they’ve no chance of taking a bite out of you from there!

Unfortunately you can’t adopt a shark, but you can adopt a brilliant selection of amazing animals through the Aspinall Foundation. I personally have adopted a Honey Badger called Tyson with them, so if you wanted to help an animal that is a bit different from the norm, check out our page that is dedicated to their amazing creatures. There’s anteaters, baboons, fishing cats, but no sharks. Sorry!