Shark Scare at Gulf Shores

Guys, don’t freak out. I live in gulf shores and I go far out in the water a lot, but you just have to be careful

At the end of the day it's a sharks habitat and we are just visiting. We must respect these creatures and understand that they are apex preditors. They keep our oceans clean, I am personally terrified of sharks but understand that with out them our oceans will be in worse conditions than what they are currently.

Sharks live in the water so that shark is like in his home

"This shark that has vacationers saying things like, its right out there, what kind of shark is that?"

in that same spot in last september we found a mako that swam up right up into the wave break by a ton of people to get a fish and calmly swam away after that

It was a Bull shark, Great Hammers have a longer pointier fin

They're always out there

Police Chief Brody weighed in saying “You better damn well do something about this one cause I don’t intend on going through that hell again!”

They are pretty close to the pier I noticed and they love being near there due to people fishing, its easy food for them. Plus the whole ocean is their home its not like they have a barrier separating them from the shoreline.

Holy Shit!!!! I saw this thing from the condo when I was younger. It was the biggest shark I have seen. And it was awesome.

More tourist get mowed down riding their rented bikes and scooters on Ft. Morgan road than get bit by a shark. Also approximately 15 people a summer drown in the rip tides even thou there are rip tide warning signs and flags everywhere.

I was the one who saw it. I was in the water.

Shark swims uncomfortably close to the beach 🤣😂 its the sharks territory 🦈

I am on way there for spring break 😭☹️☹️☹️☹️

I'm going there this Saturday I don't know if I'm going to go swim

Drymond says 'As a shark nerd it doesn't concern me at all.' Maybe more responsible would be him to clarify that the most common shark in that area is the Bull Shark; potentially more aggressive than either the Great White or Tiger, e.g. teenage girl on boogie board killed on Florida panhandle within the last couple years. I am pro animal until animals attack people; then I am pro people. We kill bears and mountain lions that attack people; we should do the same for sharks. A technology that should be employed at popular beaches is using drones, and a life guard watching the drone footage.

There's much worse lurking in the mangroves just up from the beach

It was a Hammerhead looking for stingrays.

That's not a great hammerhead. That's just an okay hammerhead.

LMFAO @ A Great Hammerhead. And opening story with newsreader with a Whakeshark on screen behind her while saying the shark pictured...... Whale sharks are harmless and HUGE we swim with them in Western Australia.