HALIFAX—A great white shark has been detected near Halifax — the second great white spotted in Nova Scotia in a month — prompting at least some people to stay out of the water. So we’ve just been talking about that and opted not to go today,” said South, owner of Rebecca’s Restaurant in Mahone Bay, Wednesday. In November, a 900-kilogram great white named Lydia — who like Hilton has her own Ocearch-managed Twitter account — was among two tracking off Nova Scotia. Ocearch chair Chris Fischer has said white sharks could be using Nova Scotia’s Sable Island as a place to mate. On Monday, Hilton tweeted a map showing his Nova Scotia location and called to another Twitter-using shark: “Hey @SharkSavannah, come on up.

Source: thestar August 10, 2017 01:18 UTC