Shark found in pool

[Meanies]

A shark was found in a swimming pool at one of Sydney's most popular beaches Friday, apparently swept into the baths by a freak wave.
The one-metre (3.3 foot) shark turned up in a rock pool situated next to the open ocean at Cronulla beach.
Cronulla Surf Lifesaving Club spokeswoman Robyn Cole said fisheries officers netted the shark and released it back into the sea unharmed shortly after members of the public reported its presence in the pool Friday morning.
"It was quite calm, just swimming happily up and down at one end of the pool," she told AFP.
"It's funny, though, because we have swimmers who come here at 6am every morning to do laps. It's still dark then and they mustn't have even noticed it was there."
Cole said the shark must have been swept into the pool overnight by a large wave.
"It's the first time we've had a shark in the pool," she said. "We've had seals sunbaking there before, and get dolphin at the beach all the time, but I've never heard of a shark getting caught in a pool before."


lol. I reckon they would've made more money if they left it in there and let people look at it :eusa_whis

[Innuendo]

It would eventually die, due to lack of space and decent hygene.

[Test:Tube:Baby]

Lol, so were there actually people in there swimming with it?

Good thing it was only small :P

[Moh]

Imagine been told that you had just swam with a shark ;o

[cocaine]

they make it sound like one of them 6 foot sharks that eat people, but instead it was a harmless 1 metre shark

[risque]

I'm surprised they didn't barbeque it.

[Ekalb]

Being an Australian and very local to the area, by 'pool' you probably all think like a home pool in someones backyard but really it's not.
Along the beaches are enclosed areas (still sea water just with a concrete wall built around them and usually a bit of a fence on top). It's no real amazing feat for a shark to get into them. In fact it probably didn't jump, just swam over on a high tide.

Click here (http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=-34.064588,151.156029&spn=0.002555,0.005558&t=h&z=18) for an example, taken from the area and it could even be the place of the incident.

[le harry]

i agree bl8k

[FlyingJesus]

I didn't think that at all -rep

[efq]

Being an Australian and very local to the area, by 'pool' you probably all think like a home pool in someones backyard but really it's not.
Along the beaches are enclosed areas (still sea water just with a concrete wall built around them and usually a bit of a fence on top). It's no real amazing feat for a shark to get into them. In fact it probably didn't jump, just swam over on a high tide.

Click here (http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=-34.064588,151.156029&spn=0.002555,0.005558&t=h&z=18) for an example, taken from the area and it could even be the place of the incident.
Haha its like the Algarve, theres like fishes and plants in the water but its sea water surrounded by rocks, its used for children as it isn't too deep and its clear.

[xxMATTGxx]

they make it sound like one of them 6 foot sharks that eat people, but instead it was a harmless 1 metre shark

I didn't find that they were making it sound like a great white shark which kills people? Maybe we both read it different.

[cocaine]

I didn't find that they were making it sound like a great white shark which kills people? Maybe we both read it different.

well what image do you get when you hear shark? surely you dont get an image of a small tiny thing :O

[flatface]

well what image do you get when you hear shark? surely you dont get an image of a small tiny thing :O

Ye but he's saying that they never said that, people just assume.

[Monopoly]

I love sharks. :D
I'd love to swim with one.

[Adam!]

Haha, at first I thought it ment in a outdoor swimming pool.. Not actually the sea, lol.

I've swam with sharks at Typhoon Lagoon at Disney in Florida :)

[Naruto!]

Haha, at first I thought it ment in a outdoor swimming pool.. Not actually the sea, lol.

I've swam with sharks at Typhoon Lagoon at Disney in Florida :)
Even though theres thick glass at the bottom where the sharks are :P
I've done that a number of times too :D

[Adam!]

Even though theres thick glass at the bottom where the sharks are :P
I've done that a number of times too :D
No, your in the same tank ;) As proven by a diver that went down and swam abeam the shark! :P I thought it was in a seperate tank too, but it's not.

In Discovery Cove they're in a seperate tank though :(

[Virgin Mary]

It should've been like Jaws and eaten everyone.