Hammerhead Shark in Lake Macquarie

Hammerhead shark filmed in Eraring Power Station outlet, Lake Macquarie, Australia.

Date: 31 August 2009.
Camera: Casio Exilim EX-F1 (slo-mo footage @ 300 frames-per-second)

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• hammerhead
• shark
• casio exilim ex-f1
• lake macquarie
• slow motion
• slo mo
• 300fps

[broadcastingmyself1]

hey fantastic footage.

i posted the other clip "lake macquarie shark sighting."

did u notice at about 44secs a second fin briefly pops up on the left hand side of the screen in the fisherman scene?

thanks

[TheBlissfulIgnoramus]

Thanks. Actually, what you've well-spotted there was in fact a turtle.. it was hanging around there in a 30-40m area the whole time.

[soccerirl14325]

Bull sharks can live in fresh water and there is probly salt water in the lake from the river or canel

[akaBriXo]

oh my god i was just in there water skiing and tubing! im so scared of sharks! especially when you have to be alone in the water away from the boat!

[Fargate68]

Hey thank you for posting this, was out kayaking today between Pt Woolie and Brightwaters and saw the dorsal a couple metres away from my kayak, wondered what type of shark it was? :D now I am pretty sure it was a Hammerhead :D

[MACEX1000]

@westjapartyside lakes dont meet with oceans

[westjapartyside]

@MACEX1000 no, they swim through the channel where the ocean and the lake meet!

[MsLovefades]

thats a shark or a whall



[ms4281]

Lake Macquarie has a channel of water leading to the open ocean....sharks can and do swim through this channel and go cruising around the lake..

I used to try and fool myself that sharks wouldn't be in there because I grew up swimming in Lake Macquarie........*shudder*

[MACEX1000]

@CountryCityG1rlHugz some lakes are just like pools water dosnt really get in or out in less it evaporates or rainsand thats the part on how i wonder how a shark got there unless somone was just that much of a doucebag to put a shark in a lake where people swim

[CountryCityG1rlHugz]

@MACEX1000 People can purposley put them there but there are getting more & more shark sightings in lakes & rivers.How sharks or any sea creatures get into our rivers & lakes our by rivers the sea creatures swim up river and go into a river ether stay their for a bit to lay some of their eggs or fallow up the river and go to a lake and lay their eggs.Sometimes a very very small percentage don't even leave the rivers or the lakes and just live their until they die.

[MACEX1000]

how do sharks get in lakes wouldnt a person have to purposely put it there