Shark Attack............

[FWS]

A surfer got bit pretty hard by a white shark here today, from the navel to the breastbone, he survived but will have a pretty impressive jaw shaped scar that will earn him a free drink in any bar.

Check out his board.............



I figure maybe a 12 to 14 foot white shark, if it was a really big one, like 18'+ the guy would be dead.

I find elephant seal and sea lion carcasses, parts of em' anyways, with giant bite wounds on the beaches occasionally, and sometimes 1/2 of a harbor porpoise or white-sided dolphin with these big conical tooth punctures from killer whales. Pretty impressive.

I've seen white sharks just outside of where this dude was surfing, it's a good ambush site for them to take sea lions, not the first surfer to get munched there..........................

[claythomas]

Back when I lived there, a mechanic from Simpson's mantenance shop in Blue Lake asked me if I wanted to try ab diving.

I said sure. That weekend we drove down the coast a ways and spent the day gettin' one hell of a workout and I believe a limit of abs.

The very next week at that spot a guy got munched.

It was one of those things that I got off my bucketlist, but I was one and done on ab divin'

Can't see how anyone doesn't bleed to death from a white shark bite.

[FWS]

Can't see how anyone doesn't bleed to death from a white shark bite.

Some do, an urchin diver I knew had both legs taken off mid thigh by a white shark and his partner was on the boat and saw it happen, Kenny got him back on the boat, tied tourniquets around the legs and he lived until the Coast Guard helicopter came but bled out and died in transit to the hospital.

I grew up around commercial ab and urchin divers, worked as a tender on those boats, and they all have stories about white sharks cruising them as they were working underwater. But those guys are in the water 100+ days a year and attacks are very rare, more died from other causes.

And they're mostly inshore in shallower water, where white sharks cruise at night or on overcast dark days, but rarely when it's bright and sunny.

Where this surfer got nailed was out at the break at the entrance to the bay at the North Jetty, where it drops off to deep water and the seals and sea lions have to pass through to go in or out of the bay. And it was overcast. So chances were that a white shark or two might be around.

It's an oceanic Serengetti just offshore here. Makes things more interesting.

[claythomas]

Don't know much about the marine life there, but I can tell you for this PA boy there was absolutely a WOW factor for the terrestrial diversity. Never forget when I saw my first Banana Slug, Pacific Giant Salamander, Tailed Frog, Giant Redwood, Cougar, Roosevelt Elk, Otter, and of course the best of the best Bigfoot up in Orick. LOL

Not at all disappointed that I didn't see Whitey up close and personal though.

Still use a few of those ab shells to collet change in.