A lonely death.
A bodyboarder has been killed by a shark, likely a Great White, on Christmas Eve morning at a San Luis Obispo County spot near Morro Bay called The Pit, an open beachbreak less than a mile north of Morro Rock.
Most of the information comes from Facebook posts.
According to Jennifer Little, no one witnessed the attack, and the boydboarder’s body and board were found by surfers:
“Fatal Shark attack at the rock in Morro Bay on Christmas eve. Very sad Surfers found the body. Sheriff’s were in the pit parking lot going car to car trying to figure out who the victim was based on cars still parked.”
At 1:17 PM, the Morro Bay Police Department issued a press release that wasn’t much more illuminating:
This stretch of beach is no stranger to shark sightings and attacks.
In September of 2015, a shark sighting cleared 70 people out of the water tout suite. This was one day after a 72-hour clearance order was issued four days after 54-year-old surfer Eleanor Dempsey was attacked by a shark around 10:15 AM at Morro Strand State Beach, according to a news article in the San Luis Obispo Tribune:
Dempsey said she had been in the water about 35 minutes when she saw the shark approach her about 2 feet underwater. “First I thought it was a dolphin and I thought, ‘What the hell is he doing?’ ” she said. “And he kind of landed on my board. Then I realized he had taken a chunk. And I was, like, that’s not what dolphins do.”
Dempsey estimated the shark was 7 or 8 feet long and as big around as a stout man.”
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Can’t it be both?
WHOA! Good see the willingness of one who will take one for the team!
“tout de suite” not “tout suite”. Rip to the victim
damn those mongols who can’t write and try to show their superior intellects by writing in bastard French, LOL!!
Love drugs
Be careful as 4k in the TV room makes shrooms and movies like Elf an interesting experience!
Benjamin….I thought you were contributing just to be a stain and piss 90% of us off…which you have achieved!…please delete yourself!
What’s more annoying?
You?
Or pop up ads?
You.
My condolences to the bodyboarder’s family and friends. It’s really tragic that he died alone on Christmas Eve day, so suddenly, while having a session in the ocean.
Merry fucking Christmas. Brought to you by the ESA, NOAA fishery fisheries and the criminally incompetent California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Fortunately most surfers from Central California, Northern California and Oregon are not pussies and don’t get butthurt when a shark occasionally does what a shark does. none of them would blame California Fisheries or some other government entity. Now if this had happened at Pismo during a holiday weekend you may see a slight uproar.
Yeah, well most Californian surfers haven’t had a Great White try and remove 2 of their limbs, ass and nuts. I have. Gives you a different perspective. So the butthurtness isn’t emotion, it’s extreme nerve damage in my left glute.
Wouldn’t expect you to have the scope of extrapolation to link the increase in population to protections afforded by the ESA and The Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
That takes critical thinking.
Sounds like a story to write up and send DR’s way.
I follow a researcher on IG that tags sharks and one of his that’s an eighteen foot female was in the area.
He said the biggest reason that the white sharks have rebounded is a rule that says gill nets have to be at least three miles offshore now.
I concur. ESA listing Sea Lions and protecting them to their current overpopulated state is a reason as well.
This guy on my dock recently was butthurt about the situation.. https://uploads.disquscdn.c… butthurt abhor the situation
Got out of the water at a spot north if the gate a while ago and the front half of a seal was laying there still bleeding in the shorebreak, one bite and the back half was gone.
The delusional comments by people that think sharks are friendly like dolphins on that guys page is pretty funny.
No critical thinking needed. Increase in prey equals increase in predators. That’s just ecology 101. But are marine mammals overpopulated or just nearing their natural populations before they were almost hunted to extinction? Also, at least along the west coast, most folks aren’t going to favor a cull of adorable sea lions and elephant seals just because 3-5 surfers are attacked every year. Like I said earlier, unless it happens regularly at Pismo or Huntington or San Onofre or any other popular beach, nothing will change.
Maybe the shark was a liberal? My crazy uncle says they hate Christmas.
Not sure what’s happening but Ben being a regular contributor to BG is the beginning of the end for me. This has been a great space for those of us who laugh at our previous surf lives. His addition takes things to a different place. Not sure that space is for me or not yet.
What’s so funny about peace love and understanding?
Just don’t read his few shitty writings and block his comments once Negs lets him back in the romper room. I hate the lame fucker too but he’s now part of the ritual. A pathetic part, but all his shit just covers up he’s got a 1 inch dick and knows he’s gonna die alone and bitter. Fuck him.
Also Chas and DR are using Ben as a further extension of their middle finger at the industry. Ben too dumb to know he’s being played bc each article gets a few mainstreamers here who remember when Ben actually meant something and they realize the surf empire is totally fallen.
Industry?
There is no surf industry.
Most of the surf companies that were started by cool guys like Bob, and Bob and Bob are now sold off and under corporate umbrellas and the cool guys are all kicking it in the Carribean under Brhma Chopp umbrellas.
Can you name the CEO of any of the surf companies, other than Paul Naude?
The surf industry is so deceased it took Dirk Ziff to come in with his billions to save it, otherwise you little scamps would have nowhere to redirect your anger over your piddly lives.
Surf industry. Right.
Fins aren’t the only things you’re missing.
As DHMF said below, block him and don’t read his articles.
Real simple, and no song and dance required about your/our space being effected.
Ben can write and wants to he heard. BG needs some filler content. Even down to people like yourself moaning adds to the daytime soap opera that BG is.
That’s nice. Now go root your flock for Christmas.
If you can’t say something nice about someone….
There is a social qualifier that often works Negs.
You surf a good to great point break and this other fellow lives near an extinct surf spot that rests on past reputation only.
As a result, the nearby nooks and crannies (some gems) are now busy with angry entitles that left that dying cove suffocating by kooks. Entire area now fucked which explains this young mans anger and his desire to regulate a blog.
RIP sponge is the best way to sum up this story.
I’m not angry, I just think Ben’s an idiot and narcissist, undeserving of the space. And you are correct about the suffocation by entitled clowns. You can have Rincon, never much liked that place, even 30 years ago. Too many transplants now. As far as regulating a blog, I have idea what you’re on about.
He means you’re trying to regulate a website to suit your own needs with the I’m not sure this space is for me call now that Ben has been published. No offence but it’s a bit Karen like.
BeachGrit may just have a reputation for a writers with a narcissist streak anyway.
So comments have become attempts to regulate. That’s a new one. Maybe it’s time to relocate from NZ to Carp, that way you and Hippy can both pretend to be locals when everyone in Carp knows you’re trannies.
There he goes with “Carp” again.
Dead giveaway.
Only dork transplants trying to be local call it “Carp.”
Like haole people fresh off the boat in Hawaii trying to speak pidgin.
Rincon looks like a pretty fun wave but I’ve noticed from watching the YouTubes that there doesn’t seem to be a very high level of performance out there and everyone seems to be looking for tubes where there doesn’t seem to be one.
Interesting subject. What out of town pro’s surf Rincon the best? Have never seen footage of gabby or any top ten pros there besides locals like Dane and Conner. Carrisa had a good clip there in an orange wetsuit.
Jen we need a story.
Kelly surfs it good surprise surprise.
And Shaun Tomson.
Wanna see great Rincon?
Get to the end of this;
http://www.benmarcusrules.c…
Yeah, apologies a Brother has died.
Love to hear transplants complaining about crowds.
Ben actually can write. His issues are none of my business though regularly being a cunt can’t be ignored.
Still, when he’s lucid he can actually write a decent article.
See above re: Carp fishing.
See above Re: Transplants calling Carpinteria = “Carp.”
Finito.
Tracked “Barreled” through his IP address.
He’s not from Carpinteria.
No true native of Carpinteria would dare call it “Carp.”
Just as only wannabe rappers call California “Cali.”
No Californian would say that word.
Barreled is that wannabe. From Stockton. He’s a wakeboarder. He wants to be a surfer but his Chevy Vega always craps out before he can reach the coast so he’s stuck being a wakeboarder on Team Mullet.
Beachgrit is as close as he’s come to actually being a surfer and that’s not close at all.
He’d like to go to Surf Ranch in Lemoore but that’s hard to do on a barista’s wages.
Carp. Right. He fishes for carp in the French Camp Slough.
When he’s not parading around with a Trump 2024 flag flying out of his okole..
Sharks gotta eat too
What the hell bex, you didn’t get the Gabby Medina signature manscaping kit you wanted for Christmas?
You’re so binary
That’s a fucked comment, even for you
Oops.
It happens