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Stand Up Paddle => SUP General => Topic started by: southwesterly on August 28, 2015, 04:28:56 PM
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20 to 30 juvenile great white sharks (12 feet or less) were sharing waves with both prone and stand up surfers at Manresa today.
For those of you on FaceBook, look up Specialized Helicopters for the creepy video. It shows sharks following people and cruising just feet off the beach.
Specialized Helicopters
"Surfers and Sharks Today- You should see this in High Def. Amazing the surfers could not see them. SUPER SCARY. There where about 20-30 sharks all over Manresea State Beach in Santa Cruz today. The Great White Sharks where all smaller than 12' and were not aggressive, but to know so many great Whites were next to and under you should send chills down your spine. it sure did for the pilots and passengers flying over that spotted them. Come take a tour with us and see for yourself."
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Yuk! Last guy in the video seemed to spot one and started paddling away.
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Here is the direct link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkZML7saXuE
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Yuk! Last guy in the video seemed to spot one and started paddling away.
Carl, you still going surfing in the morning? :)
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Here is the direct link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkZML7saXuE
Thank you Robert for posting the link.
Hot tip; if you see a helicopter hovering over you in the surf, they are not there to film your rad cutback.
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That might help to thin out the weekend crowds:)
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The warm water is bringing them out. I'm headed out for dawn patrol - but not at Manresa. I should not have any illusions about the sharks staying outside of the kelp, though.
Carl - low tide Zero dark thirty. I'll be in the water at Capitola and headed up to Sharks by 05:30.
See you there or will you still be sawin' logs?
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Yuk! Last guy in the video seemed to spot one and started paddling away.
Carl, you still going surfing in the morning? :)
Hi, Mike,
I follow the tide, whatever time of day. Around the point breaks of Sharks and Privates, 3 foot tide and lower, or things get pretty bouncy and it takes much larger waves to overcome the high tide over the reefs. That means some kind of dawn patrol every other week or so. If the tides are over 3 feet, I avoid going out at those spots unless special circumstances or I just want to get out.
Pleasure Point is much better when tides are medium to higher, but still haven't ventured over there too often. My neighbor showed me an inside break at Pleasure Point about two weeks ago, very nice, but as usual, when spotters saw waves to catch, a few decided we were lonely and came over.
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The warm water is bringing them out. I'm headed out for dawn patrol - but not at Manresa. I should not have any illusions about the sharks staying outside of the kelp, though.
Carl - low tide Zero dark thirty. I'll be in the water at Capitola and headed up to Sharks by 05:30.
See you there or will you still be sawin' logs?
Hi, Paul,
Yeah, you are hard core dawn patrol. I usually wait until dawn patrol is wakeup time about 6:30AM, get out by 7:15 to 7:30, then advance a half hour a day with the tide depending on the "below 3 foot" tide marker. I have been known to get up by 6 at times.
At 5:30, I might be passed out on the board snoring, or at least requiring a coffee IV drip.
I used to think I couldn't balance in the morning for some reason, but discovered I can. It is really one of very prettiest times of day and makes me regret being a night owl.
I have wedding to attend tomorrow and some other wife mandated social engagements inland for a few days, will probably be back out by Wed. or Thurs., so I will miss the wave push that is coming through on Saturday.
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...and this in Morro Bay today.
At least our sharks are behaving themselves.
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I have to remember to bring a sacrificial board when I come to SoCal next month, so I can do that and leave it around at Dogpatch. Interesting sharkbite though. My guess would be keyhole saw, but it might have been some other tool. Perhaps some grom's head?
Could be worse, it might have been a Bathynomus attack:
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/08/article-2156416-138212D7000005DC-227_634x751.jpg)
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My guess would be keyhole saw, but it might have been some other tool. Perhaps some grom's head?
Very credible event with plenty of witnesses:
https://youtu.be/b7JFs3fTsDU
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What are the water temps up there now? They said it was 72 in north san diego county today but it felt like over 75. It was possibly the warmest water I have ever been in down here.
The warm water is bringing them out. I'm headed out for dawn patrol - but not at Manresa. I should not have any illusions about the sharks staying outside of the kelp, though.
Carl - low tide Zero dark thirty. I'll be in the water at Capitola and headed up to Sharks by 05:30.
See you there or will you still be sawin' logs?
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The official water temp right now is 67 degrees. Unheard of for Santa Cruz.
Although the L41 is tucked as far as you can get in the Monterey Bay and I suspect it is warmer than that.
All I can say is that it is the warmest I can ever remember and I've surfed here for over 40 years.
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Wow, that's freaky warm for up there!
The official water temp right now is 67 degrees. Unheard of for Santa Cruz.
Although the L41 is tucked as far as you can get in the Monterey Bay and I suspect it is warmer than that.
All I can say is that it is the warmest I can ever remember and I've surfed here for over 40 years.
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Double Yuk!
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on the other side of town --- Eastham's CG @ 7:30am today, I saw a seal get taken out. 200 yards outside the break. Start to finish with birds diving on the leftovers 15 seconds
RC
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Whoa!
on the other side of town --- Eastham's CG @ 7:30am today, I saw a seal get taken out. 200 yards outside the break. Start to finish with birds diving on the leftovers 15 seconds
RC
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My guess would be keyhole saw, but it might have been some other tool. Perhaps some grom's head?
Very credible event with plenty of witnesses:
Certainly possible. Any bite out of a surfboard can look odd, but that doesn't look "right". Doesn't mean it isn't. Looks more like what a bull shark would do, if there were Bull Sharks in California (there are, but pretty much only south, and even there they are rare). A Juvie white has a jaw with a low arc. As they get bigger the arc gets deeper but has a characteristic double peak. Of course that all varies with individual sharks, and the fiberglass and foam is gonna crack the way it chooses. But If I make a fake sharkbite board, it's going to be precisely correct for an 18' white.
Stand by. I just don't know what I'd want to sacrifice.
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Hey Ron, Notice the lack of crowds at CG these days. Even Nauset was closed recently. Go north my friend!! 8)
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on the other side of town --- Eastham's CG @ 7:30am today, I saw a seal get taken out. 200 yards outside the break. Start to finish with birds diving on the leftovers 15 seconds
RC
I saw a big one up close and personal at CGB about 2 weeks ago. The line up cleared fast, and I have to thank the shortboarder that pointed out the man in the grey suit and suggested I exit the venue. It was shortly after the tide flooded the sandbar and sent all the smaller seals swimming. Now back home in "safer" waters this video shows up. They've always been there, but I'm thinking about them a little bit more...
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i am knocking hard on corian, but i have never seen a shark or even heard of one seen in my usual spots--which span from western RI to northern NJ--havent been out east on LI more than a few times a year of recent, but know many who surf out there and same applies.
sorry to hear sharks are a factor at the cape--not sure why i dont see or hear of them down my way.
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Kinda glad the only thing we have to watch out for in our line up is too much chlorine in the pool! ;D
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Eastbound, you surf in the Mako-ville neighborhood. Lots of food, lots of sharks.
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makos look cool and scary but arent a threat that I am aware of.
the 15 second start to finish--with nothing but a few birds hanging out following--that's scary