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Shark in the Shallows

Your daily dose of Shark Week courtesy of the Bimini Sharklab crew.

After assisting in the capture of a sub-adult lemon shark, the Bimini Sharklab crew were blindsided by a heavy storm. While attempting to return safely, Tj, Jack, and I noticed an unusually large dorsal fin break the surface in the shallow waters just off the mangroves of South Bimini. At first we assumed it was a large lemon shark, as that would be uncommon, but not unheard of. What we saw was quite a different story...

As we got closer, we first noted the massive wake this shark was putting off behind it before recognized the signature striped pattern of the tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier. We see tiger sharks pretty often in the Bahamas, but as you can see in the video, this shark is in unbelievably shallow water, with its dorsal fin fully breaking the surface and its belly just inches from the ground.

After a few attempts to place a tail rope on this big guy (with the intention in mind of placing a tag), we realized we were simply too unprepared and watched him swim off into deeper water. Once the adrenaline of seeing this shark had past, it hit us that we were in the EXACT location that we deploy gillnets to capture juvenile lemon sharks. For those of you that haven't been to the Sharklab, that means walking in this very same water...alone....at night! It was also at this point we noticed TJ's hair was standing on end, we had let the lightning storm get right on top of us. It was time to head home!

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