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

I don’t know what it is, but I have had a cough and congestion since December that simply won’t go away.

My endless cold, the stormy Winter and the fact that Psycho Bitch is still making my life miserable has kept me dry since February.

But, things are looking good for the Summer – the warmer weather will hopefully dry my congestion up, Psycho Bitch is packing – but lacks a destination, the heavy snow pack in the mountains means a great rafting season and with all of that, hopefully comes some great diving.

I have been requested to post a link for some students at Boston University to help them with a class project.

If you have a few minutes, please fill out the survey to help them out.

Basically, in their own words, this is what it’s for:

We are a team of students in the School of Management at Boston University. For our classes this semester, we have a semester-long project in which we come up with a new product and develop the business plan for it. Our team has come up with a product for scuba divers; it is an underwater communication wrist tablet that uses handwriting recognition and text messaging capabilities to send messages to fellow divers while underwater.

One of the requirements for our project is to gather 200 surveys of consumer feedback in order to calculate the market interest in the product.

Please click here to go to the survey.