Three people were bitten by a shark in a 90-minute span within five miles of each other. A marine biologist explains his theory of the attacks.
Marine biologists completely flipped the script on a prevailing theory about the series of shark attacks in Florida’s Panhandle that injured three people on June 7.
Many believed the sharks had been attracted to a large number of orcas that were spotted on June 4 about 75 miles south of the June 7 shark attacks.
One bull shark was believed to have bitten three people over a 90-minute span along two beaches less than five miles apart, the sheriff’s office in Walton County, Florida, told USA Today.
But marine biologist Jesús Erick Higuera-Rivas doesn’t think it was the same shark.
« That doesn’t make any sense », Higuera-Rivas told Live Science.
Higuera-Rivas studies orca behavior at the Pelagic Protection and Conservation Civil Association in Mexico, including how they interact with other aquatic species.
