Great White caught from shore at Camp Pendleton
 

Being that I live not far from Camp Pendleton I found this kind of interesting. Sharks of this size are not normally caught from shore by surf casting. Some are caught from the piers but are much smaller than this ten foot Great White.

Hey Marine, still want to go swimming? :D

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/natur...by-u-s-marine/

I'm not sure I'd call that a LARGE Great White. Maybe it is a large shark, but it is not a large Great White! :D

Was watching
 

I was watching one of those animal channel shows about tagging Great Whites.

They had tagged a female, IIRC, 18 feet (?) - anyway, a really, really big one.

They were tracking it by boat but it started to come close to shore and they called in a chopper. You could see the shark swim by just outside the surf zone and swimmers. They were debating about contacting someone when it just continued on it's way.

What you don't know doesn't startle you.

Correct, a large Great White would be about 20ft long and weigh about three tons.

Any good sized Great White though is too big if I am swimming in the water. ;) :D

A 10 footer is probably a year or two old. In 1978, I saw a 23 footer a half mile off Corona del Mar State Beach. I was driving a 23 foot boat, the shark's head was at the bow, its tail was at the stern. Big fish...

Sounds to me like you needed a bigger boat .... :eek:

Haven't been in the water around there since...

Dream of mine to go diving with them. Such incredible fish ....
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Sdiver- There are a ton of great whites off the Farallon's. I wouldn't suggest diving with them. A friend of my friends family lost his head ab diving off the Northern California coast.

To a Marine, it was large.

Interesting. :munchin

The only thing I found in searching about any diver losing their head to a GW while ab diving, was a diver down in Australia back in 2007, getting bit by a GW about the torso. His vest apparently saved him, as well as poking the GW in the eye to release him. It was estimated that it was a juvenile GW, around 10 foot long.

Do you have a link for the incident you mentioned. I'd really like to see it.

"In 2004, a well-known diver in Mendocino County was decapitated by a shark in one swift attack. Though dozens of abalone hunters have died from other causes since, Randy Fry remains a name that Northern California divers speak with a tone of regret and unmistakable dread. Today, many divers, as well as kayakers and surfers, wear “Shark Shields,” a relatively new device that emits an electric field that may deter sharks as large as great whites."

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Article

Most likely a great white given the area, and the fact that it took his head off.

Interesting.

From the articles that I read, it sounds like Mr. Fry was at the surface and the GW hit him from beneath, kind of like when they hit a seal or sea lion.

That's not really "diving" with them as I was implying. That was just a tragic encounter. Sorry about your friends friend.

It won't stop my dream of diving with one, or more.

I should've said:

"I wouldn't dive with them" rather than:

"I wouldn't suggest diving with them"

That was a poor choice of words so I apologize! I didn't mean to come off like that.

You're a brave man Sdiver. If these people can do it then I guess you can too. Not this cowboy. ;)