Sophia wrote on Feb 5
th, 2023 at 2:22pm:
Just saw this on news …. The girl was on a JetSki and saw dolphins, jumped in to swim with them…
We’re they sharks fins or mistaken for dolphins?
I thought where there were dolphins… there were no sharks!
That’s folklore?
It's a myth.
Sharks often swim with dolphins, and that seems to be exactly what was happening here.
She would have seen 4 or 5 fins and thought they were all dolphins, but one of them was a shark
I've personally witnessed this in the Swan River on a couple of occasions.
Those particular dolphins can be seen in Fremantle every day between about 2:30 and 3:30PM - but they don't usually have a shark swimming with them (well, not visibly anyway).
It's mating season for the bull sharks, so I guess they're a bit more agressive than usual.
A truly horrific thing for the poor girl and her friends to go through.
I've been told the injuries were extensive and ... well ... not nice.
Condolences to her family and friends.
When we were in Perth for the H2O gravity games … (mostly on the water) we heard around the 2 pm ish they called it the Fremantle Doctor as the cooler breeze came in.
So does that correlate with the dolphins/sharks coming in at that particular time?