A warm, fast current may push great whites closer to NSW beaches
Shark fisherman Joel Nancarrow says the current has arrived all at once, squeezing sharks into smaller areas.
Hunter shark fisherman Joel Nancarrow warns that unusually warm, fast-moving water is squeezing great whites closer to beaches. Nancarrow says the Hunter coast is of higher concern, as more sharks are pushed into smaller areas.
Great whites typically drift south over about six weeks as the water warms. Nancarrow says this year the current arrived all at once.
Nancarrow expects "multiple whites on the beaches everyday" while conditions last, and hopes it lasts no more than two weeks. Nancarrow said that timing cannot be predicted until after a wind change from the south this week.
Surf Life Saving NSW said a drone spotted a shark at One Mile beach on Tuesday morning. People in the water at One Mile beach were evacuated.
- Joel Nancarrow
- Shark fisherman
- About six weeks
- Usual southward drift
- No more than two weeks
- Hoped-for duration
- One Mile beach, Tuesday morning
- Drone sighting
Why it mattersLifeguards routinely advise swimmers to stay between the flags and avoid dawn and dusk swims.
AustraliaBeachgoers from Newcastle to the Central Coast are already under daily year-round shark-spotting drone patrols.
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