The nonprofit Shark Research Committee logged a couple of recent shark incidents in Huntington Beach--including one believed to be an adult Great White, and another in San Onofre.
One at the stretch of the Huntington Cliffs know as Dog Beach was reported on March 7 as follows:
At about 8:00 AM, I caught my best wave of the session, and even and...I wanted one more. I paddled back out and was sitting in the 
lineup alone... I was waiting for a set for about 5 minutes when I felt a jolt down on the tail of my board, immediately followed by violent bubble cascade, which sunk the board down about another 8 inches. I didn’t really get what was going on as quickly as I should have, but as soon as it begun it had ended and I was apparently alone again. A wave popped up, I paddled into it but pearled because of the water in the nose of my board, I quickly got back on and paddled into the whitewater of the next wave and boogie boarded it to the beach where I emptied the board through the apparent bite mark. The diameter of the bite (see photo) suggests an adult White Shark in excess of 15 feet in length.
Not so, say HB lifeguards. The
OC Register quotes lifeguard Steve Reuder as saying, “We’re watching the water everyday. We’re not seeing anything like that.” Reuder surmises the sighting is a hoax to scare away non-locals.
Did I hear someone say
deadly saltwater snakes?"
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