{"id":9787,"date":"2009-08-11T20:01:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T03:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9787"},"modified":"2009-08-11T20:02:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T03:02:40","slug":"shark-sightings-close-norcal-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9787","title":{"rendered":"Shark Sightings Close NorCal Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/localnews\/ci_13039294\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Seacliff and New Brighton state beaches have been closed &#8220;for up to seven days after visitors spotted a shark chomping on a porpoise off Seacliff beach about 3:10 p.m.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have a confirmed predatory activity attack by a shark,&#8221; said <strong>Kirk Lingenfelter<\/strong>, superintendent with California State Parks, who ordered the closures when a four-foot long harbor porpoise washed up on Seacliff beach soon after the shark was spotted. . . Lingenfelter said researchers are still determining the size and type of the shark. Scientists with Long Marine Lab hauled the porpoise off for study Tuesday afternoon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is reportedly the first time in five years that a county beach has been closed due to a shark sighing. Marin County&#8217;s Stinson Beach closed yesterday after a sighting, but that seems to happen all the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/localnews\/ci_13039294\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/strong> via <strong>@<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/oldschooler\" target=\"_blank\">oldschooler<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel Seacliff and New Brighton state beaches have been closed &#8220;for up to seven days after visitors spotted a shark chomping on a porpoise off Seacliff beach about 3:10 p.m.&#8221; &#8220;We have a confirmed predatory activity attack by a shark,&#8221; said Kirk Lingenfelter, superintendent with California State Parks, who ordered [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9789,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions\/9789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}