I am sure someone else posted this already. If not take a peek. SUP'r filmed 2 great whites at Trestles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfwg7yvSipo
If that dude got eaten I wouldn't feel bad for a second. Stupid is as stupid does. Don't mess with great whites.
i was there right around time he filmed it and i swear i felt something go around my leg when i was out there but it was small like a fish i think
They are pretty common there. But this one may be from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. When they are done with them they tend to drop them in our local surf spots around Monterey Bay. It's important to remind them to take them back where they came from.
Complete moron. Yeah let's get close to a wild dangerous alpha predator on purpose. He should have brought a shotgun with him on the sup and shot the shark. That shark would have been tuna That would have been worth watching. haha
that's not exactly Trestles, that's actually San Onofre. 2 giveaways: One, you can see the nuclear plant in the background, and 2) there seems to be an absence of about 1000 surfers, whether it's flat or not.
I've never seen such an empty la jolla cove. There are like 3 swimmers out there doing the buoy runs, as opposed to the 3000 per day that you typically see. I mean, for SoCal, this really has been the emptiest lineups ive ever seen. The june/july gloom helped us surfers get the water to ourselves an extra month, and now that the beaches are finally packed, SUMMER IS OVER IN 2 WEEKS!!!! YEAH! But yeah, this whole media shark craze lately is really helping thin out the lineups. Keep up the good work. I guess I need to start swimming laps at my local break in my fake shark suit once a week or so to keep this thing going. And yeah, that stretch of beach has always had decent white shark populations roaming around it... But it got really bad about 6 or 7 years ago, when they thought it would be a good idea to BURY, yes BURY, a dead whale carcus on the beach... And for the entire next year, there were like 20 shark sighting per month.... So finally, like a year later, they dug up the whale carcus and moved it, becuase surfers were reporting increased sighting, and they were saying that when they would take their wetsuits off, it would wreak of blubber and rotten fish... So yes, someone in local government thought that it was smart to bury Great White Shark food on the beach, so that it slowly emits into the ocean for the next decade... And that is an old story, that wasn't really talked about after they moved the carcus... But, I am pretty sure that there may still be some kind of lingering effects from that. I mean, those monsters can smell anything from miles away, so I would only "Assume" that there may be a link... Bu yeah, from O-Side to Trestles, there have been plenty of white sighting over the past 5-7 years.... Most of the time, it doesnt get national attention. This is just one of those years, like with earthquakes, the media decides to run with every shake of the ground, when normally it is always happening anyway, but the general public, like it is so interested in Sharks, it seems to be interested in earthquakes, so media gives the people what they want... A nice big scare!
Here is an old article from surfline about the burrying of whales and attracking white sharks right there on good ol' San Onofre. A truer explanation came from Paul Amaral of Channel Watch Marine, who was hired to move the whale: “We moved the whale to a spot where heavy equipment could get onto the beach to bury it. Dolphins die, sharks die, whales die, it’s a natural process, what would you have done?” One of the answers to that was: “Give it to the SeaBees or the Navy SEALs, they love blowing **** up,” but Amaral said time and tide and money determined how this whale was disposed of: “We had to get that whale to a place where they could determine the cause of death and get it into the ground, and that is what we did.” They made haste with the waste, and that was not so smart. In August of 2003, the U.S. Marines took helicopter photos of five smaller sharks, and two sharks as large as 15-17 feet between the nuclear plant and Trail One at San Onofre. A photo of a surfer bobbing cluelessly with a big fin lurking in the background made it into the media around the world. The next summer, surfer Kelly French had a close encounter with a white shark at San Onofre, which nudged and bumped but did not bite him. The sudden and regular appearance of white sharks at San O was a mystery until Ralph Collier of the Shark Research Committee chimed in on the Who the F&* Knows column of www.surfline.com. “The shark sightings at San Onofre really started in November 2002. That is when several surfers contacted me to report encounters with what they thought were small white sharks while surfing Trail # 1. After several months of sighting and encounter reports and emails...I traveled to San Onofre Trail # 1 and interviewed a number of surfers and lifeguard personnel. It was during this visit that I learned a dead whale had washed ashore in November of 2002 and that it had been buried on the beach. Surfers informed me that at times it was possible to observe an 'oily slick' on the water that would be carried out to sea with the outgoing tides. So the original sightings and increased frequency of white sharks at San Onofre could have been the result of the dead whale on the beach leaching decaying material into the water, which then attracted the white sharks from off shore.”
People love to get excited when a pic surfaces. There are way more close "encounters" that are never photographed. Odds of getting nailed by a shark are still way low.
