{"id":6411,"date":"2009-03-12T16:06:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T23:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6411"},"modified":"2009-03-12T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T23:06:48","slug":"man-in-gray-suit-cruising-newport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6411","title":{"rendered":"Man In Gray Suit Cruising Newport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steve Lockhart <\/strong>and his friend <strong>Aaron Hix<\/strong> 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&#8217;t a seal, it was a what they are calling an 18-foot-long shark, according to a sory in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/shark-boat-lockhart-2332922-large-feet\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The shark was a beast,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was definitely curious.&#8221; He said the distance between the dorsal fin and the tail fin was about 10 to 12 feet. &#8220;The shark was somewhat inquisitive, but still focused on his direction. We originally thought it was a seal, then realized it was a fin \u2026 then we pulled right next to it and realized it was a shark,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/shark-boat-lockhart-2332922-large-feet\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong> reminded  us: it was about this time last year when a San Diego County triathlete <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/travel\/shark-kills-triathlon-2026885-trainee-in\" target=\"_blank\">was killed by a great white<\/a><\/strong>. Anyone surfing San O this weekend?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/shark-boat-lockhart-2332922-large-feet\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop-eat-surf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shop-Eat-Surf<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t a seal, it was a what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6412,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions\/6412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}