Thank you, Crazy Ivan for pointing this Easy Reader article out.

Remember fellow divers, when we’re in the water, we are part of the food chain.

The good thing is that human blood has a lot of iron in it, so humans don’t taste good to sharks; chances are you won’t be eaten after their initial test bite.

The original article can be found here.

By Kevin Cody, March 25th, 2011

Photo by Brad Jacobson

A six-foot dolphin with its rib cage exposed and its entrails missing washed up on the beach at the Redondo Breakwall on Thursday. The dead dolphin was spotted by Breakwall surfer Chris Wells about 3 p.m. and photographed about an hour later by surf photographer Brad Jacobson. View the PHOTO GALLERY.

“It’s a predation kill, most likely by a great white shark,” Dave Janiger, a curatorial assistant in the mammalogy department of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, said Thursday evening, after viewing Jacobson’s photos.

“This long beaked common dolphin is pretty fresh. It died within 24 hours, and close to shore,” Janiger said.

“That area is close to the Redondo Canyon, where large white sharks have been known to hang out. The dolphin is bitten in the ventral area of the body, which is classic for white sharks coming up and attacking from below,” Janiger noted.

The dolphin’s presence put to rest skepticism that greeted ET Surf Shop manager Daniel Del Castillo’s claim to have seen a big fin speeding past the line-up at the Breakwall Sunday morning.

Del Castillo told fellow surfers he was on the beach at the Breakwall about 9:45 a.m. Sunday morning watching friends Steve Howe and Charlie Carver surf, when he saw a two–foot-tall, triangular fin just north of the surfers.

“I lost sight of it, and was thinking maybe it was just a dolphin, when I saw the fin again, speeding south toward the breakwall, about where the outside sets were breaking.”

None of the surfers in the water, who were sitting inside at the time, reported seeing the fin. But professional surfer Sean Burrell, who was in the water, said he saw an adult and a baby sea lion inside the surf line, which he said is unusual.

“A surfer who was standing with me saw my eyes get real big, so he didn’t doubt me when I told him what I saw. But the other guys were asking if I had photos. I do now,” Del Castillo said. ER

By The Associated Press
Posted: 03/29/2011 02:03:56 PM PDT
Updated: 03/30/2011 12:14:33 PM PDT

FREEPORT, Texas – It’s the catch of a lifetime, but it’s not clear whether a Texas fisherman landed an 8-foot shark or it landed him.

Jason Kresse, 29, of Freeport, and two crew members had been fishing for red snapper about 50 miles into the Gulf of Mexico and were dumping fish guts into the water about 3:45 a.m. Monday when they heard two big splashes in the distance.

“All of a sudden something hit the side of the boat,” Kresse told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “He ends up landing on the back of the boat.”

The mako shark had apparently been in a rush to feed. It began thrashing around, and Kresse said he and his crew couldn’t get close to the 375-pound fish to toss it back in the water. It damaged the boat before dying several hours later.

Kresse, who has been fishing since he was a child, said the unplanned catch was a shock. Just unloading it was a challenge because it was so heavy.

“We had to use a forklift to get it off the boat when we got to the dock,” Kresse said.

The crew didn’t have a permit to catch sharks, so Kresse contacted federal fisheries officials on shore to get one. Mike Cox, a spokesman with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said there’s no violation because the shark’s death was an accident.

The shark is on display at a seafood business in Freeport, about 55 miles south of Houston.

“I’m going to get a mount of it,” Kresse said. “A fish jumping in your boat, 400 pounds, that’s unbelievable.”

The original and complete article can be found here.