Fin spotted close to Nova Scotia beach forces swimmers out of water

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Nova Scotia

Swimmers astatine a engaged Nova Scotia formation were forced retired of the h2o for 2 hours Wednesday aft a fin was spotted offshore.

People astatine supervised Queensland Beach adjacent Halifax were ordered to permission for 2 hours connected Wednesday

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 02, 2025 5:32 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 2

A sandy formation  successful  Nova Scotia.

Queensland Beach adjacent Halifax was forced to adjacent owed to a fin sighting, but the Nova Scotia Lifeguard Service can't corroborate it was a shark. (Anjuli Patil/CBC)

Swimmers astatine a engaged Nova Scotia beach were forced retired of the h2o for 2 hours Wednesday aft a fin was spotted offshore.

The manager of the Nova Scotia Lifeguard Service says a fin — perchance of a shark — was spotted successful the swimmers' country of Queensland Beach, astir 50 kilometres westbound of Halifax.

Paul D'Eon said the lifeguard work has nary mode to corroborate determination was a shark, but said when a fin is spotted adjacent to a beach, the argumentation is to bid swimmers retired of the water.

The seasoned lifeguard manager said the imaginable shark sighting was the archetypal this play astatine immoderate of the province's 21 water beaches, wherever lifeguards person been connected work for the past 5 days.

D'Eon said that past twelvemonth determination were 3 oregon 4 sightings of fins implicit the summer.

The manager said that successful his 51-year career, there's ne'er been a shark onslaught astatine 1 of the beaches portion lifeguards were connected duty.

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