PHOTO GALLERY.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a predation kill, most likely by a great white shark,\u201d Dave Janiger, a curatorial assistant in the mammalogy department of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, said Thursday evening, after viewing Jacobson\u2019s photos.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis long beaked common dolphin is pretty fresh. It died within 24 hours, and close to shore,\u201d Janiger said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat 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,\u201d Janiger noted.<\/p>\n
The dolphin\u2019s presence put to rest skepticism that greeted ET Surf Shop manager Daniel Del Castillo\u2019s claim to have seen a big fin speeding past the line-up at the Breakwall Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
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\u2013foot-tall, triangular fin just north of the surfers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cA surfer who was standing with me saw my eyes get real big, so he didn\u2019t doubt me when I told him what I saw. But the other guys were asking if I had photos. I do now,\u201d Del Castillo said. ER<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
