Bondi Beach has reopened after a shark was spotted in the water, forcing swimmers out of the water for the fourth day in a row. <\/p>\n
Alarms sounded out across Bondi about8.30am on Friday afteranother shark was spotted in the waters for the fourth day in a row. <\/p>\n
The beach was shut for all swimmers and surfers on Friday morning. <\/p>\n
Bondi Beach has since reopened, a Waverley Council spokesperson told NewsWire. <\/p>\n
The shark sighting was confirmed by SharkSmart NSW. <\/p>\n
\u201cWaverley Council lifeguards advise that all beaches in the LGA are currently closed due to shark sighting at Bondi Beach,\u201d a SharkSmart statement read. <\/p>\n
It is not known what the type of shark or how long it was. <\/p>\n
The beaches in Sydney\u2019s east were closed on Friday morning following the shark sighting, but some have since reopened. <\/p>\n
Bondi, Coogee, Clovelly and Maroubra beaches remain open on Friday afternoon, while Bronte and Tamarama remain closed, according to Beach Safe. <\/p>\n
This is the fourth time a shark has been spotted at the popular beach, with surfers forced out of the water on Thursday after a great white was seen swimming nearby.<\/p>\n
Chilling footage shared by Drone Shark App showed the great white shark swimming a short distance from the breaking waves.<\/p>\n
Surfers attempting to enter the water quickly turned around once they were notified, sending the drone operator a thumbs up as they left the beach.<\/p>\n
\u201cThird day running, here it is again,\u201d the drone operator said in the video.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Bondi was cleared out shortly before 7am after a shark was seen circling near the beachgoers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bondi Beach has reopened after a shark was spotted in the water, forcing swimmers out of the water…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,187436,128,338],"class_list":["post-765702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-newswire-news","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}