More ominous dorsal fins were spotted off the south Florida coast Thursday, not far from where a surfer was killed by ravenous sharks.
Life guards in Palm Beach counted more than a hundred sharks and were considering whether to close the beaches.
The scary sighting came a day after 38-year-old Stephen Schafer was killed by swarming sharks just north of there in Martin County.
A veteran kiteboarder who lived in Stuart, Fla., Schafer was about a quarter-mile offshore when the beasts attacked and began tearing at his flesh, county officials said.
Schafer's screams alerted a lifeguard who saw blood in the water when he paddled out in a rescue boat to save him, according to a sheriff's report.
By the time the guard got Schafer into the boat, the sharks had taken a 10-inch chunk out of his right thigh and bitten up his buttocks, the report stated.
Paramedics tried to save Schafer but he'd lost too much blood and died at a local hospital.
It is not uncommon for hammerhead, reef, spinner and bull sharks to be found in these waters this time of year because they are following schools of migrating fish down the coastline.
Shark experts, however, said it's also possible Schafer was attacked by a young white shark.
"It's far more likely it was a larger species such as a bull or a tiger, or a white shark if it was in the area," George Burgess, keeper of the International Shark Attack File at the of the Florida Museum of Natural History, told the Los Angeles Times.
Burgess added that it was extremely rare for sharks to go after humans. When sharks do bite humans, it's generally because they mistake them for fish.
Schafer was Martin County's first shark attack fatality since 1882. And there have been just 14 deaths in Florida waters due to sharks, said Burgess.
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