2 Great Whites Spotted Near Santa Cruz Beaches!

A day after a Capitola man shot video of a great white shark off the Seacliff pier, shark researcher Sean Van Sommeran reported sighting a great white off of Manresa State Beach around noon Friday.

Van Sommeran, who heads the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, said he spotted the 16-foot great white off near the railroad trestle on Manresa in South County.

Van Sommeran said “It’s a big one.”

Ryan Dunlap was fishing for striped bass on the Seacliff State Beach pier Wednesday, when he noticed something a little larger tugging on his line. Dunlap said he managed to lure a 10-foot great white close to the pier with nothing but a foot-long sardine for bait.

Dunlap said the shark brushed up against his main line before it began chomping on the sardine, pulling him all the way down the pier.

Dunlap was unable to capture any video of the shark on Wednesday, but found it again on Thursday. Armed with his digital camera, he took some footage.

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