11 Foot Shark Caught Off Malibu!

130 Swimmers Stung By Stingrays!

Stingrays have stung about 130 people since Wednesday and most of them were at La Jolla Shores, lifeguards said.
Three people were hospitalized Wednesday. Lifeguards said that at one point, they were treating 11 or 12 people at the same time.

One woman even got stung twice!

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Stingrays Keep Stinging in Southern California

The stingrays are still stinging people around Southern California. The rays are blamed for injuring an estimated 120 to 130 people over the past three days, with 21 of those cases occurring Friday. Most of the stings occurred at La Jolla Shores and three people have been hospitalized so far.

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Surfer Bitten By Shark At Pismo Beach!

Authorities say a surfer was taken to a hospital after being bitten on the foot by a shark at Pismo Beach, California.

The 19-year-old man was bitten Friday while in the ocean near Silver Shoals. By the time help arrived he was out of the water with a cut on his left foot.

The surfer described the shark as approximately four feet long, brown in color with dark spots. He was driven to a hospital for treatment.

Battalion Chief Steve Reeder says officials determined this was a credible dangerous marine animal sighting and advisories will be posted. However, beaches will remain open.

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Great Whites Breaching Off LA Coast!

Watch your backs! A local surfer has seen a dozen sharks recently off the coast of L.A. He even got a few of them on tape last Friday, before the Memorial Day weekend.

Thanks Sully

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Giant Squid Invading Santa Barbara Coast

Santa Cruz Shark Attack

A great white shark has attacked Eric Geiselman (New Smyrna Beach) while he was surfing off Laguna Road, Santa Cruz. The 21-year-old pro surfer’s board was broken in half.

When he felt he was under attack, Geiselman paddled fast to shore, as he was 50 yards from the beach. Later, the O’Neill Cold Water Classic California, held very close to the shark attack, got an alert call from the Floridian, who was also competing in the event.

No one was injured… this time.

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Holy Leaping Shark!

Horizons West surf shop owner/photog Randy Wright shot a sequence of a white shark breaching about 300 yards off Sunset Blvd in LA on Saturday, Oct 3rd. Damn!

Check out the entire sequence here!

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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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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