Sharks??? During Beach Dives

[spike627]

I dove today and saw a nurse shark about 5 feet on commercial reef on the left side of the pier about 15 feet deep.

 

[C-Hardware]

things are getting a bit interesting around here of late:

Woman swimming with Sea Lions gets munched:http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20030820-0017-ca-swimmerkilled.html
Message: may not be a good idea to "mingle" with an apex predators favorite food.

Great White sighted:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20030824-0123-shark.html

Message: dont get careless, or you might become "limbless".

 

[Harvo]

I read that article. What I have learned is when the sea lions leave you, take off your fins. (haha)

 

[C-Hardware]

it's probably just a halibut
ut:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20030826-9999_1m26shark.html

 

[Harvo]

Thanks for the Pictures.

 

[pasley]

Just Blue, angel, horn, and swell sharks so far. There are lots of juvinal great white sharks in our local waters too, but I have not seen any while diving. Several are swimming with surfers near San Onofre Beach in California for the past several weeks.

Of course there is the case last week of that woman just up the coast from here (she was in central Californai) who was swimming with sea lions ( a great white favorite) and met a great white. She did not survive the encounter.

So seeing sharks of any type while shore diving is a distinct posibility. But what a treat they are to see.