The Departments of Beaches and Citizen Safety of the Telde City Council, in Gran Canaria, have agreed this Sunday, after authorizing its reopening at noon, a new closure to the bathrooms of Melenara beach, and also that of Salinetas, when a shark near the coast.
This was 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 bathroom on this beach on the east coast of Gran Canaria be reopened, once confirmed the departure of the shark, sighted near the shore 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 in response to the sighting of a shark near the Teltense 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 was no longer in the vicinity with a jet ski sweep, 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.
Several people recorded and shared images of the shark on social networks as it approached the sand, to the surprise of the bathers. The animal was identified as a hammerhead shark.
