Healthy stocks of beloved, and iconic, fish.
Two days after a Santa Barbara County Fire Captain posted footage of Great Whites frolicking among waves at Santa Claus Beach near Carpinteria, a headless seal has washed up at nearby Oxnard Shores.
Put two and two together, Occam’s razor and so on.
Five juvenile great white sharks swim just past the breaking waves at Santa Claus Beach near Carpinteria, CA on June 12, 2021. The area is well know by shark researchers as a nursery habitat for the great whites, as they feed off stingrays and other smaller prey. pic.twitter.com/3RipoiS3aQ
— SBCFireInfo (@EliasonMike) June 12, 2021
“The Santa Claus lane area near Carpinteria is particularly bad,” says the BeachGrit reader who photographed the decapitated mammal. “Sharks becoming an issue…”
A few weeks ago, local man Jon Shafter shared footage that his son, Erik, shot off Santa Claus.
“Between there and Serena (Loon) Point we saw approximately five different animals, all in less than 15 feet of water,” said Shafer, adding the Whites were mostly juveniles although there were a couple of ten-foot adults.
Shafer shared the footage NewsChannel 3-12 to remind swimmers and surfers that Whites are coming closer and that they’ve grown since last year.
One year ago, almost exactly, a drone pilot shared footage of Great Whites eating a dolphin at Padaro Beach west of the City of Carpinteria, also excellent viewing.
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Santa Clause Beach is one of the most shadowed surf spots on that whole stretch, barely qualifies as surfing most of the time. But really, the entire Californian coast is a chock full of whites, just depends if they’re juvies or adults.
Sharks have never been observed mating, so I am going to go with bullshit on that place being a “breeding ground.”
It’s probably a spot like this one in New York
https://www.smithsonianmag….
About 14 Stone.
Hey mind drone business!
The great whites at Santa Claus Beach must think all their Christmases have come at once ……
Santa Jaws!
Applause !
Applaws!
Sounds like something from the IT police ….
Yes. Please don’t go there. Lots of sharks. Too dangerous. Stay in LA and OC – much safer.
The old Jedi mind trick
These are not the waves you are looking for ,
Go about your business
Move along …..
…based on a true story. All of it.
That’s clearly just wiring and cables and stuffing. Fake news. Seals aren’t real.
Sealiously?
Local Whites sharks are the bad, but it gets worse when they learn to ride electric bikes zooming down on their Mayhem boards.
Sounds like a typical White.
Membership has its privileges ….. Shirley you are joking ?
I’m NOT joking…and don’t call me Shirley. ; )
With a name like Jon Shafter he’s gotta be hung like a donkee.
We might be looking at yet another instance of BG journalistic research. I think he is referring to Jon Shafer, local photog.
Derek’s freudian slips are endless.
err, ah,
as no 1 has ever filmed a coupla GWS’s fuckin’,
well i’ll say that a breeding ground, boink~ie, boink-ie, boink,
is different from a nursery school, which is what your article is ’bout,
me thinkz, right?…
here is a different species of shark, gettin’ it on:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
^^^
oh yea!
with 2 penis’z, get some, fuck that ‘cloaca’!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Bruh oxnard shores… I live in the nard and we barely see any sharks here, always thought they travel to deeper water after carpenteria. The malibu artist has made me think otherwise.. 😳
I was a surfer,
I had a skateboard,
I was soo heavy man I lived on the Strand!
Sticky …. I once took a visiting pro surfer from Oxnard, Billy Barker , on a day trip …… He was in town and staying at a friend’s house for a Pro Contest in Cronulla ….. A big guy with a mop of blond hair , he was so humble and polite and was genuinely stoked to be taken to a secret spot ( well it fucken was then ) about 2 hours down the coast in the Ford Cortina by two annoying kids who tried to convince him of the threat of drop bears and killer budgies and he was having equipment problems so I lent him my board to try ( a wonderful Neil Cormack shaped SKY ) which was perfect for the wedging left peaks at …..?.
Anyway this was in 84 and I had no idea that Silver Strand had a reputation until I was forced to read Surfer and Surfing in France a decade later ( no other choice in English ) and was blown away .
The place had a reputation for sure. There was a guy nicknamed “Eye-ball” back in the 80’s who supposedly resined razor-blades to the nose of his board amongst other turf-defending rituals. Probably lots of barking too I would presume. There was a write-up about him in an old issue of Surfer.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good ‘ Eye Ball ‘ Story ….
We had a guy in France would occasionally pull out his hunting rifle and shoot it in the air at a spot about 2 km up a river mouth which was shit … We found another wave which works on the same conditions ( a mini mini mini version of skeleton bay ) about 5 km away with no shooter so that was the end of that
El zorbo
Were you wasted? (Doubt many will get this old reference).
Google maps shows how close this is to Rincon.
Where’s Hippy?
and Karl?
Would you post a human getting humbled by nature?
I think it’s called Kook Slams ?
the seal lost its head in the silver strand fight club, but washed up on shores tho.