A group of great white sharks are reportedly engaged in a feeding frenzy on a whale carcass near a surf zone off St Andrews beach on the Mornington Peninsula.
An eight-metre humpback whale carcass is floating 200 metres from shore as the group of juvenile sharks tear it apart, a volunteer shark patroller has reported.
Volunteer shark patroller Ric Wilson said an oily slick from the carcass’ blubber and offal had reached a surf zone.
“I’m worried that, because of the hot weather, people will be in danger,” Mr Wilson said.
“What attracted me to the site was the oily slick reaching to the surf zone where surfing operations were being conducted There was a possibility that someone may have been coated with this oily substance.”
Mr Wilson said seabirds were also getting in on the act. Surf lifesaving patrols on the nearby beach had not yet started for this summer.
“I could tell it was a humpback because its corrugated skin was floating in the water as the sharks tore apart its innards.
“It won’t go away. It will be there for two to three days,” Mr Wilson said.
