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This article talks about bull sharks that lived for 17 years in a lake by a golf course’s 14th hole. Because of this, scientists now know that bull sharks can live pretty long in a low-salted environment. This all happened at the Carbrook Golf Club near Brisbane, Australia. 

The article also talks about when a lake is connected with the sea because of a flood, you better not swim in it before you know if there is a bull shark or not. There is a big chance that because of the flood a bull shark came into the lakes.

The owner of the golf club said that golfers found it interesting that there were bull sharks on the golf course. The people who worked at the golf course also gave the bull sharks food occasionally. The article also describes that the lake was a safe space for the bull sharks to grow up because there were no big sharks that could attack them.

The only bad thing about these lakes is that humans come way too close to sharks. This leads to dozens of documented fatal attacks on humans. Therefore, you have to be careful when a flood comes. Because of the last flood that happened at the Carbrook Golf Club in Brisbane, none of the bull sharks are still around at the golf course.

I think the lead of the article is good. It clearly states what this article is about and also got my attention right away. The article describes well what the situation is and also uses professors to talk about it. As the reader, you get a pretty clear view of why this is a special situation. And I mean this not only because there are sharks on a golf course but also because it is a low-salted environment and researchers did not know that sharks could survive there for so long.