Great white shark ‘a little too close for comfort’ in Nova Scotia
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.
One Twitter user joked it was “a little too close for comfort,” after a 600-kilogram tagged shark named Hilton signalled it was in Mahone Bay, a tourist town 85 kilometres from Halifax on the province’s south shore.
Hilton — tagged by the research group Ocearch in Hilton Head, S.C., in March — signalled he was in Mahone Bay on Sunday.
“Hilton has been travelling north along the coast of southern Nova Scotia for the past week and a half,” the group said on Facebook Wednesday.