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Why is one Florida beach in particular a hot spot for sharks?
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7/4/2025
Thousands of migratory sharks pass by the Florida coast twice a year, in addition to multiple species of resident sharks in the water.
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just a hundred yards or so off most beaches along the eastern seaboard is a super highway
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of tens of thousands of sharks. Their migratory pattern takes them right past New Smyrna Beach
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two times a year in the late spring and in the fall. What we found is particularly interesting
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is with these thousands of black tip sharks that they're passing New Smyrna Beach in Volusia County
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by the thousands. Even with that fact you're 30 times more likely to be struck by lightning than
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be bitten by a shark. Now over my shoulder is where the Halifax River and the Atlantic Ocean collide.
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It is a hotbed for bait fish and this is where you'll find a lot of the sharks feeding. The larger
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species the bull shark comes in and out of the Halifax and into the Atlantic freely and that's
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oftentimes when it collides with humans. The area near the Ponds Inlet also features sandbars and
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steep drop-offs which are natural gathering spots for sharks. And lastly the Sunshine State is also
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home to 13 different species of sharks who use Florida waters as a nursery grounds for their pups.
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Some places you have sharks that are basically resident. They stay there all year round. They're
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not even migratory and I think that's part of the attraction of New Smyrna is you have this
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influx of this seasonal influx of sharks overlaid on top of a resident population that's always there.
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And so no matter what you have sharks in the water you know pretty much any time of the year and so
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you've always got the opportunity for someone to have a negative encounter. Along New Smyrna Beach,
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Florida, I'm Leslie Hudson reporting.
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