If what you mentioned is true then it was probably me who started that thing. We were 4 free-divers at the entrance mouth of inland sea and decided to swim to a spot that is around 2.5km offshore (we have already swam much farther than this spot before and swam to this spot couple of time too)... but due to the strong current we all got separated... so each one was by his own.... so while swimming back to the shore I spotted a large bull shark that just swam by me.... After reaching back to shore, and as it was getting too dark, and my buddies didn't show up, I decided to call the coast guard and inform them that my 3 buddies got separated from me (I knew that they are alright but I just took a precautionary measure).... and that's when they sent a boat to look for them (since 2 of the 3 buddies in water were Qataris so they didn't hesitate a second) but fortunately my buddies had made it back to the shore by that time but were simply drifted further down in the inland sea which delayed them to get back to the spot on shore where we decided to meet up after the dive....
Unfortunately the story made it to the newspaper the next day with plenty of exaggeration and bullsh!t (the funniest thing is that they mentioned that 4divers were stranded in the sea and 1 diver got drifted back the shore and was unconscious but then regained his consciousness and called back the coast guard which picked up the stranded divers lost in the open sea) CRAP X CRAP as usual....
and btw; concerning bullsharks, I only know 2 reported cases for which they were observed: one for which I was blessed to observe one in its natural habitat, and one which was observed by diver trying to fix a line in an oilrig by the north field.
If what you mentioned is true then it was probably me who started that thing. We were 4 free-divers at the entrance mouth of inland sea and decided to swim to a spot that is around 2.5km offshore (we have already swam much farther than this spot before and swam to this spot couple of time too)... but due to the strong current we all got separated... so each one was by his own.... so while swimming back to the shore I spotted a large bull shark that just swam by me.... After reaching back to shore, and as it was getting too dark, and my buddies didn't show up, I decided to call the coast guard and inform them that my 3 buddies got separated from me (I knew that they are alright but I just took a precautionary measure).... and that's when they sent a boat to look for them (since 2 of the 3 buddies in water were Qataris so they didn't hesitate a second) but fortunately my buddies had made it back to the shore by that time but were simply drifted further down in the inland sea which delayed them to get back to the spot on shore where we decided to meet up after the dive....
Unfortunately the story made it to the newspaper the next day with plenty of exaggeration and bullsh!t (the funniest thing is that they mentioned that 4divers were stranded in the sea and 1 diver got drifted back the shore and was unconscious but then regained his consciousness and called back the coast guard which picked up the stranded divers lost in the open sea) CRAP X CRAP as usual....
and btw; concerning bullsharks, I only know 2 reported cases for which they were observed: one for which I was blessed to observe one in its natural habitat, and one which was observed by diver trying to fix a line in an oilrig by the north field.
i hope that was useful.