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A group of Japanese fishermen were fishing for basking sharks off Monterey, California. One shark was harpooned, and pulled two of the boats for some distance. When it stopped, seemingly exhausted, the fishermen moved their boats up alongside it. The shark then lashed out and struck the first boat with its tail, killing two men and leaving it ...
Around thirty-eight percent of recorded great white shark attacks on humans in the United States have occurred within the Red Triangle—eleven percent of the worldwide total. [2] The area encompasses the beaches of the heavily populated San Francisco Bay Area, and many people enjoy surfing, windsurfing, swimming and diving in these waters. [3]
A surfer at a beach south of San Francisco was injured in a possible shark attack last week, days after another apparent attack in Northern California.
A 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) stretch of a popular Southern California beach was closed for the Memorial Day holiday after a shark bumped a surfer off his board the night before, authorities said. The ...
Basking shark: Cetorhinus maximus: Cetorhinidae: Endangered [16] Basking shark: Frilled shark: Chlamydoselachus anguineus: Chlamydoselachidae: Least concern [17] Frilled shark in Aquarium Tropical at Palais de la Porte Dorée: Horn shark: Heterodontus francisci: Heterodontidae: Data Deficient [18] Horn shark at Monterey Bay Aquarium: Sevengill ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Swimmers and surfers today are about 90 percent less likely to be attacked by sharks off California's coast than they were in the 1950s, even though there are hundreds of ...
This list of megamouth shark specimens and sightings includes recorded human encounters with Megachasma pelagios, popularly known as the megamouth shark. A similar list is published by the Ichthyology Department of the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida .
Almost two dozen great whites were spotted by the U.S. Coast Guard Oct. 16 off Pacifica, a coastal community near San Francisco.