South Africa: Great White Takes Swimmer Near Cape Town

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | January 20th, 2010 | Trackback

The beaches of Cape Town are overseen by the world’s only shark-spotting network, but it was no consolation for a swimmer who was killed by a great white shark Jan. 13 off Fish Hoek beach. The man was attacked three times by a shark described as immense by witnesses as he swam about 100 yards offshore. The spotting network dispatches workers with binoculars and radios to nearby hillsides who alert lifeguards when they spot shark silhouettes in the water. The seas around Cape Town have one of the world’s highest concentrations of great white sharks, and the beaches are on high alert.

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