TEQUESTA, Florida (25 Aug 2003) -- An artificial reef created to improve marine life is attracting bull sharks to the water off Coral Cove Park, forcing officials to close the beaches almost daily. "These sharks are territorial," said lifeguard Rick Moore. "What's happened is you have an accumulation of tropical fish." The limestone-boulder reef was created earlier this summer to draw fish to the area just south of Coral Cove Park. Since then, lifeguards have called swimmers out of the water for periods ranging from 30 minutes to all day because of the sharks. | | Palm Beach County Ocean Rescue officials said the county's parks had previously closed sporadically for shark sightings but never as consistently as in the past month at Coral Cove. "If they want to swim in our swimming area we just kind of turn our swimming area over to them," district supervisor Chuck Price said. SOURCE - eNews |
