Just as the UK finally starts to get semi-decent weather, we're suddenly told to be wary of going into the ocean.
Not because the sea is all that warm at the moment, but due to fears that the sea might not be all that safe for a swim because a shark is suspected to be patrolling the waters. Well, that's... disheartening.
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Alarm bells have been raised after the carcasses of two dolphins washed ashore at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.
Resident Stephen McHugh told the Mirror: "It's pretty frightening - it can't be a coincidence that something out there keeps attacking and eating seals, dolphins and porpoises.
"If it is a great white, let's hope it doesn't come into the warmer shallow water close to the shore when people are on the beaches in the summer.
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"Great whites can live for decades so it could have been out there for years, and if it's found a mate, they could be starting a family."
Great Yarmouth Bay is no stranger to dead marine mammals washing ashore, with a half-eaten whale carcass being discovered last year and a porpoise in 2016 spotted with some pretty horrific bite marks.
It also certainly doesn't help that there was reportedly a 10-foot shark spotted off the coast of Spain at the weekend.
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Police were searching for the creature yesterday, which was seen off the Costa del Sol holiday resort of Fuengirola.
It was first seen off Torreblanca beach in Castelló before new sightings nearer Malaga which were thought to be the same shark.
Footage taken by stunned locals showed the fish - thought to be a tintorera or blue shark - moving through the water. Holidaymakers were asked to leave the water while local police and Guardia Civil searched for it.
While it's not likely to be the same shark that was involved in these two incidents, it's still a healthy reminder that these bad boys and girls enjoy hunting in our waters.
Thankfully, there hasn't been a fatal shark attack in the UK in more than 90 years.
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The last one was in September 1937 in the Kilbrannan Sound off Carradale on the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland. Sadly, a basking shark managed to capsize a boat with three people onboard, who all drowned.
In the last 10 years, only been a handful of incidents have occurred, in which the majority of those attacked were all fine. Three encounters at Balintore Bay in Easter Ross, Spey Bay in Moray and Islay in the Inner Hebrides all ended with no injuries.
However in 2009, a diver suffered 15 to 20 bite marks after a captive angel shark bit him at Deep Sea World Aquarium in Fife.
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