What you need to know about sharks in Hawaii after two recent incidents on Maui and two on Kauai.
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What you need to know about sharks in Hawaii after two recent incidents on Maui and two on Kauai.
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Thank you for the laugh this morning – Rob freaking out thinking he encountered a shark – I will remember that!
Earlier this year, before the apocalypse, I was tending a resting seal on Poipu Beach right at the point. I was securing a sign right by the water and looked out to see a large, upright stick moving straight toward me in the water… how odd. Too thin for a snorkel and moving too fast. Then it turned sideways and I saw it was actually a fin which then moved west to east past the point while another lady and I stood and watched the 5 foot shark move past the point about 12 feet out. Both of our mouths were hanging open- the water was FULL of swimmers and snorkelers! I ran to the LG station and reported it- well, they said it must have been a ray- really!? They totally dismissed my sighting and when I got back to the other lady, she said a second one had moved through. LGs never did a thing and, happily, no one got hurt. No idea what kind of shark but way too close for comfort. I instinctually moved back even though I was on the beach. I have spent hundreds of hours at that beach over 15 years and that is my first sighting. Amazing that no one in the water saw the shark.
I was not at Poipu the next day but heard that they had to close the beach due to shark sightings. Hey guys! Maybe that crazy old haole lady was not so crazy after all!
Thank you for all the information you give
I think humans forgot the beaches where closed off and on for month’s.hardly any tourist no hundreds of people swimming in these oceans and coves so the sharks and the fish got used to no human activity.now that were back we are a threat. Just be careful be watchful and respect the ocean and the life that lives in it.after all its there home.
Mahalo
it has just been confirmed by Maui News Now that the shark bite victim has passed away. Condolences to his ohana.
Praying for him. No real point of the video though.
It used to be rare for a shark attack on Maui but it seems to be getting more often. Am I wrong in this thinking?
I, my wife, my five kids, have all swam, surfed, fished, dived, in waters off three major islands. Couning all of family, about 50 or more, not One has ever even Seen a shark. So that number quoted about the odds are correct.
EDDiE L
If you have never seen a shark while in the islands, it doesn’t mean the sharks don’t see you.
Since moving to Honokowai, 36 years ago, our family has seen, literally, thousands.
Most are blacktip reef sharks and whitetip reef sharks. We’ve been SCUBA diving and free diving amongst Hammerheads, and an occasional tiger shark. The beautiful thing about sharks is that we’re swimming in their home, and after an “encounter” with a shark, it’s best to be respectful.
We’re all guests on this big blue planet.
Aloha.
Beat Of Hawaii, y’all rock!
Hi Pam.
Thanks. You too!! We’ve definitely both seen our share of them here too. Never anything dangerous, but as you say, we do enter their home.
Aloha.
What’s the point of the video? Waves, drones, trucks and boats? Or to show no evidence of a shark?
I was living on Maui when a shark attacked the wife of the sugar mill manager, in November 1991.
My husband and I had gone early to take our morning swim and heard someone screaming.
The next few days, everyone hunted down and exterminated every shark they could find.
We’d scuba dived nearly every day in the channel between Maui and Lanai.
Moral of the story?
We humans are swimming in the home of all sea creatures. Respect should be paid to the sea for it’s beauty and danger.
Mahalo for your time and be safe.
I was there too! The police picked up her two kids at the high school that morning – all the other kids thought it was maybe a car accident. So shocking as there hadn’t been a shark attack in many years. We were vacationing last year when the call came in at canoe beach for the attack in front of the Kaanapali Shores. Now it seems it is much more common.
I was living on Maui when a shark attacked the wife of the sugar mill, in November 1991.
My husband and I had gone early to take our morning swim and heard someone screaming.
The next few days, everyone hunted down and exterminated every shark they could find.
We’d scuba dived nearly every day in the channel between Maui and Lanai.
Moral of the story?
We humans are swimming in the home of all sea creatures. Respect should be paid to the sea for it’s beauty and danger.
Mahalo for your time and be safe.
Hi Pamela.
Thanks.
Aloha.
For those of us who spend our time on the islands in a condo or a resort with a pool, this is precisely why if the governor and mayors don’t open the pools we will be taking our vacation dollars elsewhere. I believe in the latest announcement about beginning to open things up, a comment was made basically saying, “Why does anyone need a pool? We have a beautiful ocean to swim in.“.