A shark has been spotted in a Spanish port less than a week after another unleashed panic on a Costa Blanca beach.
He was seen on Wednesday morning off a pier on the island of Arousa, in the Galician province of Pontevedra, home to spectacular white-sand beaches and small coves that are popular with tourists and locals alike.
This time, the type of species seen was a blue shark, which rarely bites humans but has been implicated in fatal attacks in the past.
The footage showed the shark’s telltale fin appearing above the water line as it approached a fisherman’s boat.
The clear, shallow water made it very easy to see.
A blue shark was sighted this Wednesday morning in front of a pier on the island of Arousa, in the Galician province of Pontevedra.
It occurs a few days after a shark approached the coast of a beach on the Costa Blanca.
Local fisherman Rogelio Santos Queiruga insisted that the blue shark, which appeared to be wounded by a harpoon, faced greater danger than humans.
He admitted: “If we try to touch it, it can hurt us with its teeth or rough skin.”
But he added, insisting that these types of sharks are not great white sharks or tiger sharks that can be very aggressive: “The fact that they are seen close to the coast is good news.
“It’s a sign that in the high seas, where they usually live, they may be recovering after decades of overfishing.”
The shark seen in the province of Pontevedra has been described as measuring around five feet and was thought to be young and not yet fully grown.
The fishermen filmed it swimming in the water of the swallow because its presence so close to the coast is rare.
The water temperature in the area was around 20 degrees Celsius, higher than normal.
The latest sighting brings to four the total for the last week at sea off the Spanish coast.
The shark seen in the province of Pontevedra has been described as measuring around one and a half meters and was thought to be young and not yet fully developed.
This time, the type of species seen was a blue shark, which rarely bites humans but has been implicated in fatal attacks in the past.
The footage showed the shark’s telltale fin appearing above the water line as it approached a fisherman’s boat.
Three have been blue sharks or blue sharks, which have been attributed to an attack on a tourist in Elche, near Alicante, in July 2016.
The other was a six-gill shark, sometimes called a cow shark, which is not considered a threat to humans due to its small size and deep-sea habitat.
Last Thursday, a blue shark about seven feet tall caused a panic off the white coast of Aguamarina beach in Orihuela Costa, south of Alicante.
Beachgoers were filmed trying to run to safety through waist-deep water as it neared shoreline.
Lifeguards blew their whistles to warn locals and tourists about the bigwigs and urge them to get out of the sea as quickly as possible.
A woman, believed to be an elderly woman helped out of the water by good Samaritans, is said to have suffered a panic attack after realizing the shark was right next to her.
He was found dead the next day next to rocks on La Caleta beach in Cabo Roig, a couple of miles away.
The same day it came to light, the same species of shark had been sighted inside the Port of Ciutadella in Menorca.
The fishermen filmed it swimming in the water of the swallow because its presence so close to the coast is rare.
Over the weekend, a cow shark approached a boat belonging to a group of fishermen off Cap de Formentor, near Puerto Pollensa in Mallorca.
The men turned off the boat’s engine to avoid damaging it.
Blue sharks rarely bite humans, but have been implicated in several biting incidents, four of which are said to have ended fatally.
A blue shark was blamed for an attack on a tourist in Elche, near Alicante, in July 2016.
The 40-year-old victim was rushed to the hospital and given stitches to a wound on her hand.
Lifeguards described the bite as “big” and said it had risen from the sea with blood oozing from the wound.
In August 2018, tourists fled the sea in a panic after a blue shark, one of the most common in Spain, washed up off the crowded Majorcan beach of Calas de Majorca, on the island’s east coast.
In April, a seven-foot shark also believed to be a blue shark was filmed in the waves off the southeast coast of Mallorca at a nearby beach called Cala Llombards.
Initial reports suggested that the previous shark was a blue shark measuring about seven feet in length.
Footage of him in shallow water showed that he was obviously disoriented.
A Spanish woman watched it as its telltale fin appeared above the water’s surface and it headed inshore in clear water before nearly running aground on the sand.
She could be heard saying as she smacked her side into the swallow’s water and wagged her tail in an attempt to get back into the sea: ‘This one is going to end up stuck here.
“We have to get it out of the water, it’s going to stay where it is.”
His efforts eventually paid off and he was filmed swimming back into deeper water before disappearing.
Earlier this month, Russian tourist Vladimir Popov, 23, was filmed being attacked by a tiger shark and dragged underwater off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
Parts of its body were later recovered from inside the predator’s belly after bathers clubbed it to death.
Biologist Juan Antonio Pujol told a Spanish newspaper after it emerged that the blue shark seen off Aguamarina beach last Thursday had been found dead on a nearby beach: “Coming across something like this when you’re swimming in the water gives a impression, but you should stay.” calm down because they are not aggressive.’
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