Marine Life Deadly shark attack in Israel's unique shark diving spot

[pisauron]

News from just a few minutes ago are spreading among Israel's diving community about a deadly shark attack.

In Israel there is a unique shark diving experience - the Hadera power station ejects warm water to the Mediterranean sea. When the sea water drops too cold sharks gather there to spend the winter in the station hot stream. Two types of shark spend the winter there - Sandbar shark & Dusky shark.
The depth is 4m max and in winter this becomes a favourite dive site for scuba, snorkel, fishing and the general public.
Approx 30-50 sharks in a small location just swimming around. But...

Today sad news and bloody videos appeared as it seems a diver has been eaten by a few sharks violently. Full details are yet to be public.

*Warning*
The video contains lots of blood:





This is the first casualty from these shark recorded in Israel, and the future of the dive site is yet to be determined. But atm it is closed for investigation.

Sad.

 

[DandyDon]

Several news stories feature videos of sharks swimming around waders. These two kids seem to be preteens and the shark big enough to cause damage if provoked...

Crowd watch as swimmer mauled in the sea and feared dead off Israel

Footage posted on social media showed a diver flailing in the water off the coast of Hadera on Monday, with other footage showing a shark swimming by people up to their waists in the sea.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Steelyeyes]

Weird that lots of people over lots of time have used the place and this one time the sharks go wild on a guy.

 

[touny71]

Weird that lots of people over lots of time have used the place and this one time the sharks go wild on a guy.

Supposedly spearfishing, if true sounds insane.

Diver missing after shark encounter in Med

A male spearfisher has disappeared in the Mediterranean off the northern Israeli town of Hadera, following an encounter involving what is suspected to be a

divernet.com

 

[pisauron]

Supposedly spearfishing, if true sounds insane.

Diver missing after shark encounter in Med

A male spearfisher has disappeared in the Mediterranean off the northern Israeli town of Hadera, following an encounter involving what is suspected to be a

divernet.com

Probably wrong/old.
Latest news is this is just an ordinary dude who wanted to see the sharks and perhaps he used dead fish to lure them, but the fish part is unconfirmed. Also as a river flows to the sea just at this spot it has many dead fish this time anyway, so the sharks were seen picking up these fishes past few weeks too.

Couple hours ago some remains were found but not yet confirmed legally to be him.

Still waiting for updates.

 

[NauticalNick]

Supposedly spearfishing, if true sounds insane.

Diver missing after shark encounter in Med

A male spearfisher has disappeared in the Mediterranean off the northern Israeli town of Hadera, following an encounter involving what is suspected to be a

divernet.com

That makes more sense. It seems like bizarre behavior, otherwise. Very unfortunate decision and outcome if that's the case.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

I wonder if there is anything else in the water besides warm. I mean, remember those carrots from Gilligan's Island?

 

[Steelyeyes]

Remains of missing shark attack victim found, concluding 24-hour search

Israeli media reported that items belonging to the victim have been recovered, but that the swimmer who was attacked by sharks is still missing.

www.jpost.com

 

[Micko1974]

Very sad. It a wonder why this happened while people have been swimming and diving there for years.