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| Chaloklum Diving, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons |
The Carbrook Golf Club in Queensland, Australia, has a water hazard in the truest sense of the word, especially for a golfer who wades in trying to retrieve a lost ball. The lake on the course contained at one time at least six bull sharks, some near ten feet long. Bull sharks are maneaters who attack people more than any other shark species, as they like to cruise in shallow water and are very aggressive. They also have the ability, unlike other sharks, of thriving in fresh water for extended, if not indefinite, periods of time.
The sharks populated the lake in the 1990s when floods temporarily connected it to the ocean. Unlike most other golf courses, the management does not allow divers to harvest balls from the water hazard. Lamentably, the sharks have not been spotted recently, and their fate is unknown.
Bull sharks have been known to travel up freshwater passages and have been caught in the Mississippi River as far north as Alton, Illinois.
If you wish to know what a bull shark who calls a golf course home looks like, please click on this video clip.
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