LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) - Safety officials closed Hawaii’s Haena Beach to swimming after a shark was sighted offshore.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports (https://bit.ly/2tKG4FE ) lifeguards spotted the shark late Saturday afternoon.
According to a Kauai Fire Department release, the shark was a 4-foot (1.22-meter) blacktip reef shark.
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Small blacktips are very common in Hawaiian waters and usually ignore or avoid humans.
Signs were posted to warn beachgoers.
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