It is white shark time at Catalina - Page 2

mako6924 · Mar-25-2008, 04:12 PM

I was diving off la jolla about 2 years ago me and a buddie kayak out. jumped in hit the bottom 55 feet looked around and about a 10 foot white cruzed by about 10 feet away. We surfaced and back in the yaks real fast. we did not dive la jolla that day.
And for those who say mr white should be at la jolla soon. your to late their already thier. Their a few seals floating around off la jolla missing their head.

J Graham · Mar-25-2008, 04:26 PM

The Men In The Grey Suits Are Back!
Cut your Buddy!

Afry · Mar-25-2008, 04:31 PM

About 5 years ago a 2 buddies did a shore dive from LJ and had a 10' GW breeze by in about 60' while they were heading out. The worst part was one of the BC's malfunctioned and they had to swim back in on the surface - they said they were pretty rattled.

Since this thread is already jacked - Ali mentioned the other day that GW's were recently spotted around the Nados - any other intel?

fisherbaby · Mar-25-2008, 07:00 PM

YES!! hopefully they eat as many seals as they can stuff themselves with

YANK N CRANK #2 · Mar-25-2008, 07:02 PM

Any of these sharks similar in size to the big bastards that frequent the Loop??

Balluga · Mar-25-2008, 07:04 PM

I had a 15 1/2 footer almost get me at Church Rock while free diving...all that saved my ass was a kelp bed around the rock...it followed me up and actually broke the surface and stayed there about 20 seconds...could see his black beady eye looking in the kelp at me from about 8' away...finally, he just drifted down and away with no motion of tail or fins...one of my diving partners was killed at Guadalupe Island by a great white..

South Bend · Mar-25-2008, 07:04 PM

Saw a dead seal floating on the backside of Catalina on Monday. There was a seagull standing on it a picking at it. It looked like the head was missing too. It smelled like shit, I'm guessing it had been dead for awhile.

pfish · Mar-26-2008, 09:13 AM

Dove Catalina for the last two days. No sharks. No WSB or croaking either. I respect and believe the reports. I talked to a fish and game warden over there and he said they have more sightings on the front side as opposed to the back side. Does anybody know of a confirmed fatal shark attack in the last two decades in SoCal? I have personally seen makos on the kelp paddies and pull in as soon as I see them, but I have never heard of anybody being hit by one. I think these big boys are out there to scare but not eat...I hope..

Rubberhook2 · Mar-26-2008, 10:48 AM

If you see one make sure you signal the other divers that everything is O.K....

medunn16 · Mar-26-2008, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YANK N CRANK #2

Any of these sharks similar in size to the big bastards that frequent the Loop??

YES!

NATEDOGG · Mar-26-2008, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pfish

Dove Catalina for the last two days. No sharks. No WSB or croaking either. I respect and believe the reports. I talked to a fish and game warden over there and he said they have more sightings on the front side as opposed to the back side. Does anybody know of a confirmed fatal shark attack in the last two decades in SoCal? I have personally seen makos on the kelp paddies and pull in as soon as I see them, but I have never heard of anybody being hit by one. I think these big boys are out there to scare but not eat...I hope..

Four in the last month in SoCal. None fatal. Two attacks and two sightings.

http://www.sharkresearchcommittee.co...shark_news.htm

BabyGiant · Mar-26-2008, 05:02 PM

NateDogg- I only heard of one attack in the last month and it was the HB one were just the surfboard was damaged. Were did the other one happen?

Heres the link...

Pacific Coast Shark News