Steve Lockhart and his friend Aaron Hix were about a mile and a half off-shire from Newport Beach last night burning off some fuel after working on their the engine of their 1985 29-foot Carver when they thought they saw a seal bumping along beside them. But it wasn’t a seal, it was a what they are calling an 18-foot-long shark, according to a sory in the OC Register.
“The shark was a beast,” he said. “It was definitely curious.” He said the distance between the dorsal fin and the tail fin was about 10 to 12 feet. “The shark was somewhat inquisitive, but still focused on his direction. We originally thought it was a seal, then realized it was a fin … then we pulled right next to it and realized it was a shark,” he said.
As the OC Register reminded us: it was about this time last year when a San Diego County triathlete was killed by a great white. Anyone surfing San O this weekend?
[Link: OC Register via Shop-Eat-Surf]
