link for more info:


http://ktla.com/...ort-beach-fire-dept/

Yeah all over the news of course. They'll know by the bite marks (and sea lion bites can be NASTY) but saying they didn't see a shark in the area, which I wouldn't find all that surprising since she flagged the guards down

Hopefully not the start to another Summer of the Shark! and people calm the f down

Nothing can be done about the sharks in the area, but if there are aggressive sea lions around the piers and jetties, something can be done against that.

I hope if it was a sea lion, they figure it out and take actions.

Went for a swim early this morning off LB main beach.



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As posted its a popular swim training spot for triathletes in OC. Until this year I swam there 2-5x a week so I know it well. ST swimmer Halfspeed and his crew are regulars. There's sharks but we just don't see them often. As for seal lions a few years ago there was one floating on his back on the buoy line we use to swim. To say the least we gave him some room. If it was a Great White it's got to be a juvenile or she'd be gone.

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Very rare to have aggressive sea lions unless they're sick, happened a few years back with the red tide, they were affected by a neurotoxin, can't remember the name at the moment.

News is now saying NPB lifeguards confirm its a shark attack.

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I don't swim much at Corona any more. I swim with the OW pod at Shaw's Cove and Oak Street in Laguna. On another forum, it was reported they closed two miles of beaches. I wanted to say that I'm pretty sure a shark can swim more than two miles. I'll be in the ocean tomorrow morning, 6:00. Could be my famous last words, but, I'm not bothered by this.

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White Shark. Likely a juvenille.

One reason I don't like ocean swims

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Lions don't lose sleep worrying about the sheep

It was a shark. Mostlikely GWS, but big makos also eat seals and sea lions.

Chomped and spit when it realised she wasnt a seal is most likely scenario.

Thanks to the explosion in seal and sea lion population, there are a LOT more of these sharks around than a couple decades ago, and they are all getting to the size where they start eating marine mammals

I thought dusk and dawn are the worst times to ocean swim because sharks don't see very well.

Accdg to long beach scientists it's actually a byproduct of a healthier inshore ocean (especailly here in Santa Monica bay). The juvenile whites that hang near shore mostly eat rays and other bottom dwellers, which have exploded.

They say they know where the juvies are and the big 12+ footers are out at the islands generally. But they don't really know where the "teenagers" go, the ones 6-12 feet that are learning how to become predators.

A sharky ocean is a healthy ocean. I'll be back out next Saturday.

While I agree that a healthy supply of alpha predators CAN be a sign of a healthy ecosystm, those scientists saying there isn't a developing problem in socal with GWS have a HUUUUUGE blind spot when it comes to sharks, large ones in particular.

Talk to your local freedivers or commercial fishermen. The PhDs studying these things don't, or ignore their (the divers, fishermen) observations because they are not PhD, or worse yet, blow hem off as "anecdotal", but there are more, and more BIG whiteys around than any time in the last 50 years. Sea world, friends of the sea lions, etc rescuing hundreds of pups that would normally be starving and releasing them back into an ecosystem that is already past it's carrying capacity isn't helping the situation eithier, but it sure is giving all these growing sharks a steady food supply.

I don't swim much at Corona any more. I swim with the OW pod at Shaw's Cove and Oak Street in Laguna. On another forum, it was reported they closed two miles of beaches. I wanted to say that I'm pretty sure a shark can swim more than two miles. I'll be in the ocean tomorrow morning, 6:00. Could be my famous last words, but, I'm not bothered by this.
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Steve, funny I'm sure whitey is hanging at Laguna too, quick swim to check out Shaws and the surf at Oak St :) I'm sure the Sharks like looking for eats in the kelp between CDM and Dana Point.
Maybe some divers were spear fishing in the area attracting the shark.

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Technically speaking it's not past its carrying capacity since the populations have been growing.

Also saving a few hundred pups probably has a negligible effect on combined population approaching 800,000.

She was a local triathlete.

Best brave and fearless wishes to Maria today. This triathlete survived a shark attack off Corona Del Mar state beach yesterday--she swims where we all swim and she faced what we all fear. Her fitness and strength saved her life. We at Team Fearless Endurance are so thankful Maria will be OK and we hope so see her out training again soon. Send well wishes to her through her team , Tri La Vie, or via FB message.

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Hmm, this weekend is Xterra Laguna Beach, what will they do? Not sure if I will race now.

There were sharks in the water before this incident

There will be sharks in the water after this incident

true, never been one to worry about sharks but...

So you are saying there are sharks in the water?

I swam this AM - Shaw's to Seal Rock and back. No sharks, but water was freakin cold - sub-60. No wetsuit! Another group went south and one ran into a scuba tank/bcd caught in the kelp near Rockpile. Very odd. She reported it to the Marine Safety Office.

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A good test is to taste the water. Salty? Gonna have sharks. Fresh? Probably not gonna have sharks.... unless it's a bull shark that swam upriver :)

Makes sense. For Ventura and Oceanside I only tasted diesel. For IMAZ I didn't open my mouth :)

Forgot about diesel... I think other than the risk of sudden immolation I think we're safe in diesel!

Smart man at IMAZ