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Shark safety tips to start the summer
CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. (WAVY) – Contender is a hanging out off the shore of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Ocearch is tracking him as part of a larger conservation effort for our oceans.
'Our oceans are back. We are in the great return to abundance and we're seeing as much life off our coast, both east and west now as we saw in the 1940's,' said the founder of Ocearch, Chris Fischer. 'So, it's an amazing time to get out to the ocean with your family. Realize, if you're my age, if you're in your 50s, we grew up in an ocean that was completely wiped out. So, you could walk into the ocean anywhere, any time. Now, over the last 30 years, we've rewired our oceans. Our kids are going to see an ocean full of fish.'
Fischer suggests one way to see if there are sharks in the ocean is to look above it.
'If you see a bunch of birds crashing on bait and game fish eating the bait, there's going to be sharks coming in and the food chain is colliding there,' Fischer said.
Also, pay attention to the flags at the beach. A purple flag means there is marine life in the remember, the odds of being attacked by a shark are extremely low and sharks are good for our oceans.
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'When the white shark comes to town, every animal knows it and behaves properly,' Fischer said. 'So when you're seeing them off your beaches, you can know our management people must be doing pretty good.'
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