Leaping Shark in Santa Monica!
Photos were taken Saturday morning near Pacific Palisades showing a large white shark leaping from the water.
Longtime local surfer, Randy Wright, shot the photos Saturday morning off Sunset Beach. Wright, who owns Horizons West surf shop in Santa Monica, said he was in his 10-foot kayak about 300 yards from the beach lifeguard tower when he snapped a series of photos capturing the shark as it broke the surface of the water.
The shark was about the same size as his kayak, he said.
Wright said he was in the water as a volunteer for the nonprofit Shark Research Committee, which conducts research on sharks and documents attacks on humans.
He said he had heard that someone had spotted a shark at the beach the previous day so he went out the next morning about 8:30 with his waterproof camera.
“I was just sitting out there in my kayak, not throwing chum or anything,” Wright said.
Ralph Collier, head of the committee, said that sharks in the area are nothing new. With more people surfing and enjoying the water, he said, the potential for shark sightings has increased.
More photos are posted on the committee’s website with a report by Wright.
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IM just saying that sharks are NOT dangerous!!! Did u know that POP MACHINES kill more people each year than sharks!
Wow. That is quite a photo. I stayed at a Santa Monica beach hotel last year and saw dozens of dolphins every day that passed right by the area where I was staying. Although it is no shark, it was still very cool!
Wow.
Im from out of country, and were in santa monica when this photo was taken. I have just come home from LA. One day i was surfing on my wannabe fake bodyboard together with my friend i saw a pretty huge shadow swimming just a few feet in front of me. I know that it was not a dolphin, anyone who maybe know what it could be??
yeah i think it was a shark..
This is frightening to see a beast this size just yards off the shore. I don’t understand how surfers just go out there every day and rationalize it like “hey such and such kills more people every year than sharks!”. I bet beating off kills more men yearly than sharks by a hundred fold, but I’ll always take my chances flogging my molly over getting into that abyss any day.
And if the sharks don’t get you, the beaches in california are so soaked in waste and runoff and pollutants that your bound to get some type of infection.
Do what I do and take up sidewalk surfing. Fuck Sharks. Kill’em and Grill’em all. They suck!