advance warning
bondi beach closes temporarily
sydney-hundreds of swimmers were ordered out of the water and sydney's bondi beach was briefly closed on
January 2 after a shark was spotted.
what new south wales police said may have been a bull shark was sighted 150 metres from the shore by a police helicopter off tthe popular eastern suburbs beach.
"we've had a lot of fish in the bay,and that's part of sharks' general routine. They eat fish,and they're following the bait ball," bondi lifeguard anthony carroll said.
A bait ball is a densely packed school of fish that forms when they are threatened by predators.-AFP