A 12 FOOT LONG TIGER SHARK
SPOTTED IN
HONOLULU HARBOR.
THERE'S EVEN VIDEO OF IT COMING
RIGHT UP TO THE SHORE.
JENN BONEZA HAS MORE. JENN?
JENN:
JOE
THE VIDEO WAS TAKEN NEAR SOME
POPULAR LOCAL RESTAURANTS.
MANY WORKERS I SPOKE TO HAD
EITHER SEEN IT OR
HEARD ABOUT IT.
FOR A TIGER
SHARK THAT LARGE
TO COME SO CLOSE TO SHORE
this is something you don't see
everyday.
the tiger shark is 12 feet long.
It's eating a dead fish about
two feet from the rocks in
honolulu harbor next to pier 38.
the video was posted on social
media thursday
afternoon.
today, it was spotted again in
the same location.
RAY EUBLAIA, SAW THE SHARK AT
see one black spot just moving
across the water all the way up
here and from there, it just
left."
RAY EUBLAIA, SAW THE SHARK AT
THE HARBOR:usually the guys that
eat here the mostly see it
a lot."
RAY EUBLAIA, SAW THE SHARK AT
THE HARBOR: "they usually feed
the aholehole, the fish,
aholehole they call it, and then
the shark just come. "
JENN: workers I spoke to aren't
surprised a shark was
spotted here in the area given
the amount of restaurants and
fishing vessels here."
but how often do they come into
the harbor?
I reached out to marine
biologist kim holland with the
tiger shark tagging program.
KIM HOLLAND: RESEARCHER HAWAII
INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY UH:
"over the years we've put
satellite transmitters on a
large number of tiger
sharks and at least two of those
have reported from
inside of honolulu harbor and
they have made repeated visits
into the harbor."
the gps tracker showed one of
the sharks inside the harbor at
least six times over a three
month period
very close to where the video
was taken why would a shark go
into the harbor?
To eat, of course
KIM HOLLAND: " they are very
mobile and they spend a
lot of time looking for feeding
opportunities wherever those
feeding opportunities may come
from."
JENN:
DR. HOLLAND TELLS ME THAT TIGER
SHARKS HAVE
ALWAYS BEEN IN HAWAIIAN WATERS,
THE RECENT
SIGHTING AT THE HARBOR SHOULDN'T
ALARM OR
WORRY PEOPLE.
IF YOU DO PLAN TO GO INTO THE
OCEAN, AND ARE
CONCERNED ABOUT SHARKS, HOLLAND
SAYS
USE COMMON SENSE, NEVER SWIM IN
MURKY OR
BROWN WATER AND ALWAYS SWIM WITH
A BUDDY.
JOE
