A shark two meters long that has appeared in the Melenara beach in Telde (Gran Canaria) has unleashed the panic among bathers They were able to see how the marine animal reached the shore, from where dozens of people ran away in terror. The Beaches and Citizen Safety departments of the Telde City Council agreed this Sunday, after authorizing its reopening at noon, a new closure to the bathroom on Melenara beach when a shark was again detected near the coast.
This has been confirmed to EFE by the Consistory’s press office hours after the councilors of Beaches and Citizen Security, María Calderín and Miguel Rodríguez, ordered this noon that the bathing of this beach on the east coast of Gran Canaria be reopened, once the departure of the shark, sighted near the shore, was confirmed since Saturday afternoon.
The Local Police, Civil Protection and Proactiva services, a company that provides lifesaving services on the municipality’s coastline, continue to work in a coordinated manner to supervise, with a drone unit and also with jet skis, that the animal does not approach again. To the coast.
This Saturday the prevention protocol had to be activated against the sighting of a shark close to the Teldens coast, so the red flag was raised on the beach mast and bathers were evacuated from the water.
Early this Sunday, the members of Proactiva verified that the animal anda was not in the vicinity with a sweep on a jet ski, assisted by the aerial camera of the drone unit (Unidron) of the Telde Local Police, directed by Juan José Florido, although hours later they saw him again.
(Information prepared by EFE)
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