{"id":279424,"date":"2026-02-11T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279424\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:40:09","slug":"mangawhai-sharks-drone-video-shows-33-bronze-whalers-in-shallow-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279424\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangawhai sharks: Drone video shows 33 bronze whalers in shallow bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">The ocean predators ranged in size, with some smaller ones and \u201csome big mamas\u201d, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Bronze whalers can reach 3m in length and average around 1.5m-2.5m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Bruce said he would be keen to get in the water and film the sharks in the future to show their docile nature and that they are not a threat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have a group of ocean swimmers, and they go in like four times a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThey\u2019ve named the resident one [shark] Felicity, and they see it most times. But yeah, it\u2019s all just part of nature, which we are too.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">The spectacular school of fish, which Bruce also caught on film, was swimming in a circular motion to protect themselves from the sharks, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI tell a few friends that I call it the fingerprint of life, it\u2019s pretty special.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ocean predators ranged in size, with some smaller ones and \u201csome big mamas\u201d, he said. Bronze whalers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[51582,33844,665,17181,32126,9260,55275,25094,19473,78,440,55315,111,139,69,13636,147,55339,14861,418,12825,416,156774,156773,406],"class_list":["post-279424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-51582","tag-aerial","tag-around","tag-bar","tag-bronze","tag-captured","tag-cruising","tag-drone","tag-footage","tag-in","tag-local","tag-mangawhai","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-photographer","tag-science","tag-shallow","tag-sharks","tag-shows","tag-stunning","tag-video","tag-waterway","tag-whalers","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}