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Great white sharks lurked near swimmers, surfers 97% of the time in drone study.
Shark researchers have released “shocking” results from a 2-year drone study — showing that apex predators came very close to people, but simply moved around them or ignored them completely.
The study along southern California beaches looked at how close juvenile white sharks get to humans, such as waders, swimmers, surfers, and stand-up paddle boarders.
The researchers from Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab revealed that at juvenile white shark aggregation sites, people were near sharks on 97% of the days surveyed. And during the two-year drone study, there were no reported shark bites in any of the surveyed locations.
“Frankly, we were shocked,” Christopher Lowe, professor of marine biology [said]. “Sharks would interact with people every single day, multiple times a day, and they would just swim by.
“It was shocking that these occurrences were happening so often,” Lowe added. “And the fact that no one was being bitten smacks in the face of the misconception that if there’s a white shark nearby, you’ll be attacked. This shows that’s not the case.”
More than 1,500 drone surveys were conducted from 2019 through 2021 across 26 different southern California beaches to measure human-juvenile white shark habitat overlap.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...-what-does-this-mean-for-cape-cod/ar-AA1cbHvA
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