http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4-X9yfoTlk&eurl=http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/offshore-reports-southern-california-usa/108408-hungry-yellows-425-great-white-6-13-2008-a.h
This taken on 6-13-08 this week. Well within the sight of land…and Childrens pool La Jolla.
Swim at your own risk
dude what is that
thats a fckin shark dude
classic
made my day bro
that really was LOL
“thats a dolphin on its side bro…”
classic
brasco
“You know what it is? That’s the side fin of a porpoise whale.”
“Yeah.”
“look there’s two of them.”
Too funny…
Then again…how far off shore were they?
10-14 miles, just clearing the nine mile bank. The same bank that intersects La Jolla Canyon. The same canyon that bring the waves to Blacks & Scripps.
On a side bar, my buddy that free dives at la Jolla told me a few days ago that he’s been seeing a few seals with gashed semi circled cut tails. so deep that the white blubber is showing…A tell tale sign that the younger sharks are trying for supper but lack the skills to pull it off.
Also on a side bar, side bar. On the last wind swell I was surfing Scripps. I found a chewed seal carcass washed up on the beach. It was old and pretty bird pecked, but you could see the chomp mark out of the the back side that killed it…and it was no boat.
There was a book written in the early 1950’s called ‘Danger Is My Business" - auto biography about a guy who was obsessed with catching the worlds largest sharks. Had huge spring steel hooks made that weighed over 50#, would bait them with a whole sheep or pig whose throat he just cut, dump them over the side after chumming for half a day. Hook bolted to chain bolted to huge decked mounted drum of hi-tensile cable. Shark takes the bait, swallows the hook, tows the 60’ boat around for up to two days at a time - many think it was the basis for the similar scene in Benchley’s “Jaws” book. Pictures in the book of ridiculously large hammerheads, several in the 6000# pound plus range. Author maintained Hammerheads got bigger then Whites. They looked like enormous, pulpy RV’s with teeth…
The joy of surfing cold water - you can’t see what swims under you, and you don’t want to know.
Come on guys,
its a basking shark. Lets not start sounding like the guys on the boat…
Why is everyone so surprised that there are great white sharks off the coast of San Diego? This isn’t a new thing. I remember as a kid watching the Jacques Cousteau specials on great white sharks. A lot of that footage was taken right off the coast of San Diego.
Along that same lines… Has anyone ever swam with the leopard sharks when they were breeding near the cove? That has got to be one of the coolest things I have ever done.
Come on guys,
its a basking shark. Lets not start sounding like the guys on the boat…
Sorry Kureus. We don’t have basking sharks in So Cal. You have basically 4 sharks to choose from. 1) Blus shark. 2) Mako Shark. 3) Thresher Shark. or 4) White Shark.
I’m not trying to sound like a know-it-all asshole. I do my fairshare of offshore fishing in San Diego, and I’ve seen them from time to time. My point is that were seeing them a lot lately…something is going on, and that something is the exploding seal population at the Cove & Childrens Pool. it’s kind of like Jaws, how many people are going to have to get bit, before they run those nasty sea dog off.
In another little run in this past weekend. There was a lady paddling her Kayak at Catalina…she was bumped and tipped over by a “big shark”. A guy in a boat saw it happen, and came over to help. As the lady was getting into the boat, the “big shark” was close enough to use as a step to get into the boat. Close encounters of the 4 kind?
Quote:Come on guys,
its a basking shark. Lets not start sounding like the guys on the boat…
Sorry Kureus. We don’t have basking sharks in So Cal.
Uhhhh, yes we do! In fact, they’re quite common between us and the Channel Islands. Oh, and we also get Killer whales that migrate through as well.
something is going on, and that something is the exploding seal population at the Cove & Childrens Pool. it’s kind of like Jaws, how many people are going to have to get bit, before they run those nasty sea dog off.
Uhh… Something is going on alright. It is called the internet. Everyone is telling the world every time they see a fin.
My son enjoys watching the seals at the childrens pool. San Diego has 70 miles of other beachs that he can enjoy for swimming. I personally don’t want to have a sterile ocean devoid of sea life. The ocean is the domain of the great white. Enter at your own risk, and enjoy it. Before I hurt my shoulder I used to swim the cove on a regular basis. I have seen so many interesting animals out there, including sea turtles, black sea bass, big squid, seals, dolphins, horn sharks, leopard sharks, bat rays, and all sorts of other fish. San Diego used to have much richer sea life than it does today. My Dad told me about the days when he used to go skin diving off of Sunset Cliffs. He said he could pull up five abalones on one breath. If there really is something happening then it is that the shark population is returning to previous levels.
Even if we do have a shark increase it won’t deter me or other surfers. People still surf in places like Durban and Santa Cruz. Doesn’t Florida average something like 5 or 8 registered shark attacks each year? San Diego has a long way to go before it can be called sharky.
Ok, I think I’m going to go climb a tree and protest till they let the seal be free. You changed my mind.
She one lucky %^%. “swam to shore” ??
crazy and nuts.
the kayak attack" film at eleven was followed by athe flasher in the
burbs
""and he jumped out from between
parked cars with 'is pants
unzipped and “e troid ta grab me!!!”
same news groooop
aint loife poifect?
well this said lets
open up the seal oil cannery
and bio deisil our way into
the twennyfirste
centuary…
sharks my friend are in hiding
from the japanese and chinese fishing fleets
their fins ,though cartilaginous make
exceptional reproductive bones,
and arthritic joints assimilate the cartilaage…
…ambrose…
it’s kind of like Jaws, how many people are going to have to get bit, before they run those nasty sea dog off.
You guys just don’t get it. We need to get rid of the sharks, and to do that we have to get rid of the seals. Once the seals are gone, the sharks disapear.
Im tired of being scared and having to look down in the water, Everytime I see a big chunk of seaweed I think…“oh my. this could be the real deal”
-Resinhead.
what about giving the seals ‘laser beams’, then evolution can run its proper course and the fittest will survive!!!
ah but then you’d have to look out for the seals.
dammit