Great White Sharks Spotted Near South Australia Holiday Spot

I don’t think this is too much to get alarmed about considering how remote and depopulated the community of Streaky Bay in South Australia is:

HUGE sharks chasing fish and cruising off holiday beaches pose a threat to swimmers as warm weather draws sunlovers to the coast.

Police in South Australia renewed warnings to swimmers at the West Coast holiday spot of Streaky Bay, where a monster great white has been seen cruising close to shore, The Advertiser reports.  The 5m shark had been seen in the water around Streaky Bay township and Little Islands for the past three weeks, police said.

Today’s warning follows an incident yesterday in which a man in a dinghy was attacked by a shark while fishing off North Haven at Gulf St Vincent.  [The Advertiser]

Here is a map to give everyone an idea of how isolated the community of Streaky Bay is:

The Streaky Bay community of just over 1000 people is on the edge of one of the world’s most isolated areas, the Nullarbor Plain and is over 700 kilometers from the major South Australian population center of Adelaide.  Considering how rare shark attacks are combined with how few people actually use the beach in Streaky Bay, I wouldn’t expect anyone to get eaten by a shark anytime soon.