Another Shark Sighting Closes Maui Beaches
It’s the third time this week in murky waters due to all that rain from Hurricane Ana.
For a third time this week, a Maui ocean user encountered a shark in murky water. This one happened today around 10 a.m.
That’a according to officers for the Department of Land and Natural Resources’s Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (aka DOCARE), who聽report that two women from Kihei 鈥 ages 53 and 46 鈥 “were about 200 yards off Waipuilani Beach Park, stand-up paddle boarding in five to six feet of water when one saw a shark approaching the other鈥檚 board.”
DLNR explains that one of the聽women said a tiger shark knocked her friend into the water “when it bit the tail part off her board, and that she only saw the shark鈥檚 dorsal fin and head, which she believes was about two feet wide.”
The roughed up board.
DLNR
DOCARE officers closed the area from the old pier across from the old Suda Store to Kalama Beach Park.
The incident聽follows two other shark incidents this week. All three happened in water turned brown or murky by Hurricane Ana.
鈥淲e are fortunate that no one was hurt in any of these encounters,鈥 said DLNR Chair William Aila. 鈥淭hey should serve as a reminder to stay out of areas that continue to experience runoff and murky water.鈥
