Shark attack

There was a horrible shark attack yesterday morning in Solana Beach.

A man was swimming with a group of friends training for a triathlon when he was attacked by a 12-17 ft. great white. Several surfers claimed that there were distraught seals nearby at the time of the attack. The man was bit on the thighs and eventually bled to death on the beach.

It has been a surreal day for everyone in San Diego. Almost everyone I came in contact with yesterday made a comment about the attack. It strikes close to home because everyone here spends a lot of time in the water and we all think we are immune to being attacked. The last fatality in San Diego was 1994 and even that one was suspect (many think that the woman drowned first). Shark attacks happens in Florida or Australia or Northern California, not San Diego. Our beaches are free of anything dangerous; we don't even like seaweed on the sand (or Europeans in their speedos).

A marine biologist (not George Costanza) said in the interview that the chance of an attack are the same an hour after the man died and in a month from now. Sharks are migratory so this one is probably on his way to Nor Cal but there are always other sharks in the water. The inclination for all of us is to assume that this shark is a man eater and is going to attack swimmers and surfers up and down the beach. Thank you Mr. Spielberg for that phobia.

I did check the surf camera at Swamis, a beach about 2 miles from the attack, and 3 hours after a man was killed about 30 surfers were in the water. Can lightening strike twice? I don't know but I think I am going to find out this afternoon.