. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. number of sharks near the shore. Schwartz said the high temperatures in July and August had driven up water temperatures and driven away the shark's normal food supply. The search for food coupled with an onshore current brought the sharks toward shore. Carteret County officials banned swimmers from the water August 9 and 10 along 26 miles of coastline from Atlantic Beach to Emerald Isle. The county became the center of state and national attention as reporters called county officials and fisheries experts


. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. number of sharks near the shore. Schwartz said the high temperatures in July and August had driven up water temperatures and driven away the shark's normal food supply. The search for food coupled with an onshore current brought the sharks toward shore. Carteret County officials banned swimmers from the water August 9 and 10 along 26 miles of coastline from Atlantic Beach to Emerald Isle. The county became the center of state and national attention as reporters called county officials and fisheries experts to get the scoop on the patrolling sharks. No one was attacked along Carteret beaches, but a 10-year-old Greensboro girl was bitten in the leg while wading in the surf at Ocean Isle Beach in Brunswick County. There have been only two other victims of confirmed shark attacks in North Carolina. Con- nell Purvis, director of the Division of Marine Fisheries, told reporters that the attack was an isolated incident and unrelated to the sharks sighted near Carteret County. The alert was lifted August 10 as the sharks moved back out to sea. No longer will it be just fishes, sea mammals and trawlers plying the watery depths of the mid-Atlantic continental shelf. Scientists will be too. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- tion (NOAA) has awarded funds for an underwater research, training and education program, the Southeastern Consortium for Undersea Research Ef- forts (SECURE). It will serve Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The Southeastern Undersea Research Facility (SURF) will be on the campus of UNC-Wilmington. According to Harold Dubach, SURF's administrative officer, SURF is gearing up for operations by out- Con tinned on next page. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the ori


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