Great White Sharks Keep Being Spotted Inside American Lakes — And No One Can Explain

Great White Sharks Keep Being Filmed Too Close To American Beaches - And It's Not Rare Anymore Great white sharks are the most feared predators in the ocean — animals of the deep, open sea. So why do they keep being filmed in shallow water, just yards from the beaches where Americans swim? From a great white photographed right beside a fishing boat off Honeymoon Island, Florida, to juvenile white sharks caught on drone footage cruising the shallows off crowded California and East Coast beaches, these animals are turning up closer to shore — and closer to people — than most swimmers ever realize. This video separates what's real from what's fake: the viral hoaxes and misidentifications that spread every summer, and the documented, confirmed cases that scientists can't wave away — including the government-verified great white that swam into a coastal lake full of swimmers. The truth about how close these sharks really get is stranger, and nearer, than the rumors. They're not supposed to be this close. More and more, they are. SOURCES — Tampa Bay Times — suspected juvenile great white photographed off Honeymoon Island, Florida (the opening case): https://www.tampabay.com/news/environ... — Shoalhaven City Council — Juvenile white shark confirmed in Lake Conjola (the government-verified case; council + NSW DPIRD-Fisheries): https://www.shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au/New... — Yahoo News Australia — great white filmed in the lake, the trailing fishing lure, and the "Nicole" 11,000 km / 99-day ocean crossing: https://au.news.yahoo.com/extremely-r... — ClickOnDetroit — "The great white sharks-in-the-Great-Lakes post is wrong" (the freshwater hoax, debunked): https://www.clickondetroit.com/featur... — Fox Weather — Block Island "20-foot shark" identified as a harmless basking shark (the misidentification): https://www.foxweather.com/earth-spac... #greatwhiteshark #sharks #wildlife