A young paddle boarder was lucky this week after a hair raising encounter with what most likely was a juvenile white shark at Catalina Island.
Pete Thomas has the scoop:
The shark reportedly bit the paddleboard more than once about 200 yards
offshore, beyond a remote stretch of coast a mile from Avalon.
The
size or type of shark is not known, but great whites have been known to
mistake surfboards as prey, and are ambush hunters that strike marine
mammals from below.
Catalina has been the stage for numerous shark/seal predations over the years many of which caught on tape. A paddleboard underwater tends to look like a seal and younger white sharks are known to be "frisky" with seal shaped objects on the surface.
Welcome to the start of Shark Summer in California.
This video is purported to be a Mako shark and seal at Catalina in 2010:
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