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MyspaceAccording to a few regular visitors to Gaviota State Park’s pier, a large shark, believed by eye witnesses to be a great white, has been frequenting the area during the past week, swimming in close to the pier’s pilings and, in one reported instance, chomping a fish right off a fisherman’s line. The rumors come just two weeks after Santa Barbara City officials placed shark warning signs at several area beaches in the wake of an injured adult sea lion — believed by experts to have been on the receiving end of a great white shark bite — washing ashore. Those signs have since come down after 72 hours passed without any further incident.
Shark Sightings at Gaviota State Park Pier
Thursday, August 9, 2012
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OMG Summer of the shark reports!
DonMcDermott (anonymous profile)
August 9, 2012 at 7:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Bruce only eats every 3 weeks or so. I feel safer in the water than on land but I am a Natural Law kind of guy.
howgreenwasmyvalley (anonymous profile)
August 9, 2012 at 9:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Jesus, McDermott, get your (conspiracies) straight!
Less than a month ago you were floating the canard that the Media deliberately avoids reporting on Sharks.
"Meanwhile I've heard for some time now that the press doesn't report local great white shark attacks either."
http://www.independent.com/news/2012/...
Chester_Arthur_Burnett (anonymous profile)
August 9, 2012 at 9:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Far more sharks onland than in the sea.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
August 9, 2012 at 11:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
We are not surprised! Northern Santa Barbara County is a favorite cruising spot of the magnificent Great White Shark.
There seems to be a definite trend of increasing shark activity this summer! Could it be climate change ... ?
http://www.fearbeneath.com/2012/08/sh...
fearbeneath (anonymous profile)
August 9, 2012 at 1:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The sharks will live where there is food and where the water feels most comfortable..
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
August 9, 2012 at 1:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Let me know when they see a Magalodon. (Funny how spell check keeps trying to change Magalodon to Maldonado.)
banjo (anonymous profile)
August 9, 2012 at 2:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Maybe the shark will bite into a fat ponga boat and get a nice buz.
Riceman (anonymous profile)
August 9, 2012 at 4:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Why is this news?
How many people have to die before one day everyone will recognize that it is a documented fact that Northern Santa Barbara County is a favorite hunting ground for great white sharks.
These are not "rumors". If you speak with the locals or fisherman up there, you will learn that it is not a place you want to go swimming - especially anywhere between Gaviota Pier and Government Point - and Jalama and Surf Beach.
If you are looking for a casual day at the beach frolicking in the water with your children or simply trying to enjoy a friendly surf, best you head down South where the waters are tamer and more "fished out".
Kelp805 (anonymous profile)
August 9, 2012 at 4:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Yeah I have great footage of a shark in a wave chasing a surfer at Jalama. My only personal shark encounter thus far has been at Rincon.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
August 9, 2012 at 4:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Ken, I want to see that footage.
MesaJim (anonymous profile)
August 10, 2012 at 8:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
@MesaJim: It's in my film "Land of Milk and Honey"..
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
August 11, 2012 at 7:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sadly, The Independent has done away with fivedolphins, sixdolphins, and ceteaceanpod so now there are no sea creatures that can protect the humans from the most feared predator in the ocean.
billclausen (anonymous profile)
August 13, 2012 at 5:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)