A video posted to Facebook on Thursday shows a shark swimming along side a family’s speedboat near Wedgeport, N.S., marking the first shark sighting in the area this year.
TORONTO -- As summer temperatures warm Canadian waters, sharks are returning to the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia.The footage, captured by Samantha LeBlanc on July 22, shows the shark swimming next to the family’s speedboat, its fin appearing out of the surf.that their boat is just under 6 metres long and that the shark was “three quarters the size” of the vessel.
Last year, the team attached SPOT tags to the fins of 11 great white sharks. Their expedition started near Cape Breton then moved to the South Shore near Hirtles Beach, where they had tagged six sharks in 2018.great white shark named HiltonHilton spent most of its time along Nova Scotia's south shore that summer, into the early fall and returned to the same spot the following year.
Despite COVID-19, the OCEARCH team hopes to return to Atlantic Canada in the fall for more tagging expeditions.A video posted to Facebook on Thursday shows a shark swimming along side a family’s speedboat near Wedgeport, N.S.
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