Sharks have been spotted swimming near a Spanish holiday hotspot as tourists soak up the 41C heatwave.
Las Monday, holidaymakers filmed a blue shark next to rocks by Cala des Moro, a cove in the urban area of Ibiza.
And yesterday, a second one was filmed in the water off Sa Caleta, a horseshoe-shaped bay lined with fishermen’s sheds and a popular bathing spot with locals on the South West coast of the island.
Somer Frankland, one of those who saw it, suggested it was a reef shark that may have got stuck on a fishing line because it was swimming round in circles.
It was then seen going back out to sea.
She wrote on a residents’ Facebook page on Sunday morning: “There’s a shark swimming around in circles just out from Sa Caleta.
"Around two metres looks like a harmless reef shark but its movement suggests it’s stuck on a fishing line. He’s just going around and around in the same circle.
She later added, saying it was nearly seven feet long: “He’s moved out a little further now, so I don’t think he’s caught on a rope.”
One person commented on the post: “There are no reef sharks in Ibiza, only blue sharks, makos and very rarely white ones.”
The other shark filmed last week was to have had a head wound as police and environmental officials cordoned off the area to take it away.
It comes after lifeguards recently issued an urgent warning for bathers to get out of the water after a shark circled a beach in Majorca.
They were ordered out of the sea after its fins were seen breaking near the shoreline in the southeast of the island.
It was also described at the time as a blue shark.
The same type of shark was blamed for an attack on a holidaymaker in Elche near Alicante in July 2016.
The 40-year-old victim was rushed to the hospital and given stitches to a wound in his hand.
First aiders described the bite as “large” and said he had come out of the sea with blood streaming from the injury.
In August 2018, tourists fled the sea in panic after a blue shark, among the most common in Spain, appeared off the packed Majorcan beach of Calas de Majorca on the island’s east coast.
The Mediterranean is home to 47 species of sharks.
Reef sharks are not considered dangerous and there are no recorded human fatalities from a reef shark attack.
