A shark that bit a swimmer in Del Mar last month, leaving the man hospitalized with significant wounds, was a juvenile white shark, likely around 9 feet long and 6 to 8 years old.
A 46-year-old swimmer was attacked by a shark and suffered “significant” injuries prompting officials to close a 2-mile stretch of beach to swimmers and surfers as a precaution on Sunday, June 2, 2024 in Del Mar, CA.
“I think my wounds reflect that it was only a portion of what the shark could have done, so I can consider myself really lucky,” Adams told the station.Lowe said it could not be determined if the shark in the Del Mar incident was male or female. Fully grown white sharks can be up to 23 feet in length and live 45 to 70 years.
Drone flights above such areas show sharks are often very close to swimmers, surfers and others in the water. “We have to sequence all the DNA and then try to reassemble it to see if we can identify as an individual,” Lowe said. “It is a new technique, it has never been done before, and I don’t have the money to do it. So I will try to find the money to do that part.”Researchers could use the DNA data to try to build shark family trees. “We can start to build these libraries and ask, who is related to who,” he said.
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