“She is not your everyday Southern California juvenile; she’s a massive adult that you should avoid.”
A prominent shark researcher and prez of the Marine Conservation Science Institute has hosed down talk that it was one of his tagged Whites that killed a bodyboarder at Morro Bay’s The Pit on Christmas Eve.
“I’ve gotten a lot of messages because of the unfortunate fatal shark encounter at The Pit (Morro Bay),” Michael Domeier aka doc_domeier wrote on Instagram. “A male bodyboarder was bitten and he succumbed to the injuries. First, my heart goes out to the family and friends of the victim. Second, no I don’t know if the shark was Poe Girl, or any of our other tagged sharks. The probability of it being one of our sharks is very low, since we’ve tagged such a small percentage of the overall population.”
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Poe Girl, seventeen-feet plus, a real tank, was pinged by trackers just south of Morro Bay on Christmas Day, Domeier telling FTW, “She could have easily been in Morro Bay that day, but that’s all one can say about it. There are so many other white sharks around, there’s no way to say it was her.”
Last October, after Poe Girl was tracked off El Capitan State Beach near Santa Babs, Domeier warned surfers, “She is not your everyday Southern California juvenile; she’s a massive adult that you should avoid.”
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These sharks keep getting away with murder. Of course the shark researcher it going to say it wasn’t her. They love the big ones. She is probably his favorite. Obviously loves putting photos of her on insta with all the hash tags. I got one more hash tag for ya bud- #co-conspirator. Pretty sick.
When does shark hunting season start?
Wait what? There’s an off season?
yes there’s one! and it seems it lasts 365 days!
I say catch and kill pol girl and let the fresh fillets sort out if she’s guilty or not?
Whenever I read a Derek post I imagine him posting from a spa.
With baby sharks in it.
If you rearrange the letters in “Derek” you can spell “Reked”.
Isn’t the conventional wisdom that feisty adolescents are more likely to bite us than the big oldies?
I’d say the young ones are catching all the fish and the big oldies are looking for slower pray.
Speaking of a BG obsession, our VAL boy Jonah free formed the below. He may not be able to surf, but he has made the journey to being funny as shit–perfect improv in a movie that about sums it all up:
“What up, what up world, Jason Orlean, chief of staff, United States,” he says. “I’ve been noticing a lot of prayers recently, for people during this time, and I commend that. But I also want to give a prayer for stuff. There’s dope stuff, like material stuff, like sick apartments and watches and cars, and clothes and shit that could all go away, and I don’t want to see that stuff go away, so I’m gonna say a prayer for that stuff. Amen.”
World Chase Tag. Not the normal great white hype.
Is this WCT ESPN’s new favorite?
What the actual fuck. How do you find this shit?
I’ve seen it heaps.
It’s waaaay more watched by the mainstream viewer than surfing ever can be…
Was watching Ole Miss/Baylor Bowl game and changed channels. The WCT was playing on ESPN. Not sure the WCT we know gets love like that from ESPN.
Bama or UGA?
Looks like a good right point setup in the satellite images – anyone surfed there?
Witnessed Joe Engle doing forehand layback snaps in the barrel there and it changed my concept of what good surfing is.
Smoking Joe fuckin’ ruuuuled !
Some of my best youthful surf memories are of him at Burleigh and Kirra just slaaaaying it.
Shockingly skilled bloke…
It was mind blowing stuff. It must have been around 1980. Not positive in that. Definitely before thrusters.
Every point in SB was overhead for a week straight,
Bit of a novelty but it can pump.
It’s far from a novelty but needs west swell to work. One of the best waves in California when it’s really on.
If you down voted this because you think El Cap is some sort of secret, keep dreaming. Let’s not forget it’s on Highway 101 in plain view.
Rare bird
Couple days of no Ben. Are we free of that failed experiment?
Its on you if he B__ M______ comes back
Actually, it’s all Negs fault according to Negs.
Failure from the top down only gets boosted on this site.
You’re not doing a very good job of ignoring him are you.
I can’t control myself, sorry.
I find it bloody hilarious that some of you guys are so obsessed with him.
You’re really driving his comeback energy, making him into something bigger than he ever could be if he didn’t have your unrelenting focus, and without him having to actually do hardly anything.
Bloody hilaaaarious…
There’s still been a couple of pings on his tag but really some of the shit posted recently could be from any number of writers. There’s just no way to definitively say.