They come close enough to nibble your waist!
If you live in Southern California you know that surfing here is as easy as pie. The water is relatively warm, the crowds easy to escape (with a touch of ingenuity) and the sharks nonexistent. They lurk in Northern California’s chilly water, no? And Australia and now North Carolina too, yes?
In the old world, maybe, but we live in a brave new one that is rapidly falling apart and sharks are everywhere! Lifeguards at Surfside Beach (near Huntington) have taken to flying drones and within minutes they can find 10 to 12 Great Whites poking around near shore even coming into waist-deep water.
“It works great…” Chief Joe Bailey told CBS news about spotting sharks without having to go into the water. “If we get bigger sharks or we get sharks that are aggressive, we’re actually going to close the water. But right now, we have sharks that are 5- to 6-feet long, non-aggressive, acting like normal sharks, feeding on bottom fish, doing exactly what we would expect them to do.”
But some surfers do not take comfort. “I was planning on going surfing tomorrow and definitely not now…” a woman told the station. Another said, “Sharks are kind of like my biggest fear so that’s like very daunting for me.”
See? The crowds are easy to escape (with a touch of ingenuity)!
Watch your friends frolic here!
