I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I suppose spearos are the most concerned with sharks. While the article doesn't say it, the woman was in four feet of water near the beach when a great white bit her buttock and hamstring. One off my most frequent spearing spots is about a mile off of that beach. After this attack, people started flying drones around and getting video of a lot of juvenile (8 to 10 feet) sharks. The article mentions a lot of sharks seen off Poche Beach. Poche is the site of the private beach club for my housing development.
This area has long been known as a nursery for young great whites, but they seem to be more numerous in the last couple of years. Of course I have to wonder if what has changed is that people have drones now and can see them more easily. Conventional wisdom holds that these juveniles are not a big concern since they eat fish until they are around 10 or 12 feet long, and then switch to mammals. I'm not sure how long this shark was, but maybe it was precocious. Or maybe it was hunting stingrays in the surf line, since they are said to do that. And some reports say a sea lion was nearby, so maybe it was after the sea lion and just made an honest mistake.
http://ktla.com/2017/05/05/update-e...video-surfaces-of-great-whites-in-long-beach/
This area has long been known as a nursery for young great whites, but they seem to be more numerous in the last couple of years. Of course I have to wonder if what has changed is that people have drones now and can see them more easily. Conventional wisdom holds that these juveniles are not a big concern since they eat fish until they are around 10 or 12 feet long, and then switch to mammals. I'm not sure how long this shark was, but maybe it was precocious. Or maybe it was hunting stingrays in the surf line, since they are said to do that. And some reports say a sea lion was nearby, so maybe it was after the sea lion and just made an honest mistake.
http://ktla.com/2017/05/05/update-e...video-surfaces-of-great-whites-in-long-beach/
