"Once the drone went up and I got a top-down look, it was just like ok, this thing is next level big'. I was going higher and higher and higher just to figure out where this thing ended and then I was looking at this thing going there's without a doubt 100 sharks in here, he said. [The sharks] were so close. We're talking knee-high water and they were coming right in and flapping around the bait ball, he said."
"There's very few other places in the world where, close to a small town or even a major city, you can see these amazing wild creatures so close and in numbers, Smith told Guardian Australia."
An abundance of baitfish drew hundreds of sharks into shallow waters around Byron Bay, producing a multi-day feeding frenzy. Local footage and drone imagery captured blacktip whalers, dusky whalers and bull sharks herding a large bait ball toward rocky shorelines and feeding in knee-high water while snorkelers swam nearby. Photographer Jakob de Zwart filmed the spectacle from a drone and estimated about 100 sharks in the aggregation. Marine scientists described the close, populous encounters as rare for areas adjacent to towns and characterized the event as a spectacular natural phenomenon along the coast.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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