Police and Surf Lifesavers are currently looking for a shark swimming around Pilot Bay, Mount Maunganui.
A SunLive reader has contacted us saying they have spotted a shark swimming around the Pilot Bay area.
Beach goers don't appear to be too bothered by the reportsof a shark. Photo: Tracy Hardy.
She says the shark was about 2m long but didn't know what type of shark it was.
"It's just swimming around the area."
It is understood police are asking swimmers to say out of the water and are looking to get an IRB in the area to look for the shark.
Police and Surf Lifesavers are currently looking for a shark swimming around Pilot Bay.
A SunLive reader has contacted us saying they have spotted a shark swimming around the Pilot Bay area.
She says the shark was about 2m long and just swimming around the area.
It is understood police are asking swimmers to say out of the water and are looking to get an IRB in the area to look for the shark.
Bay of Plenty Police District Command Centre Senior Sergeant Karl Konlechner says police have received two reports of a large shark swimming in the Pilot Bay area of Mt Maunganui.
The first sighting was at 9.30am. At that time it was approximately 250m offshore.
'Reports vary as to the size and species. It is reported to be between 2 to 3 m in length. Mt Maunganui Surf Lifesavers are on site and will be investigating using a RIB. Police units are also warning beach-goers.”
Shark sightings are not uncommon in the area. As always, swimmers make their own judgement whether they choose to share the ocean with its regular inhabitants.
The beach remains open presently.
More details as it comes to hand.
9 comments
Probably
Posted on 07-02-2016 10:15 | By How about this view!
Just a member of the legal profession in training for the Ocean swim series!
Probably a sandshark
Posted on 07-02-2016 10:43 | By Gammelvindnz
Lots of sharks in the inner harbour, no worry, this is their home. Just enjoy them.
poli shark
Posted on 07-02-2016 11:26 | By paul
John keys daily swim, if he gets to close to shore someone throw a dildo @ him
Wow
Posted on 07-02-2016 12:26 | By peecee09
I bet it's really saturated, poor thing
sharks
Posted on 07-02-2016 15:57 | By socantor01
They are probably bronze whaler sharks. They come into Pilot Bay every year to give birth. Hope the police don't shoot any, they have never bitten a human in NZ. Police should check with Coastal Marine Science Lab at Sulphur Point before they do anything else.
If they only knew
Posted on 07-02-2016 20:16 | By Darth Vader NZ
I have fished off Salisbury wharf and around the base of the Mount and in Tauranga harbour for the past 35 years if people only knew what was really swimming in Pilot Bay no one would ever go in the water there ever again
why afraid
Posted on 08-02-2016 08:38 | By daboy
they swim there all the time and have never bitten a tourist yet
wow
Posted on 08-02-2016 09:51 | By tuatua2
A shark in the harbour who new.I think i sighted a trout in a river as well.
ha ha what a joke
Posted on 10-02-2016 22:53 | By CC8
On a fine day, little wind and mid to low tide, Go grab a in a slow flying microlite, one of the simple ones ( no fuselage to speak of)...ones that look like a flying armchair. Get the pilot to make a slow pass over the harbour, I will bet you cannot keep count of the sharks and large stingrays you see.
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