The video shows the water filling with blood after the shark makes its kill. “Holy crud!” yelled a boy in the video, obviously ecstatic to be witnessing one of nature’s great predators in action. Now this new video has emerged captured from the Alcatraz Cruises ferry Hornblower Hybrid showing the attack from the beginning – including when the shark breached out of the water to latch onto its prey. Shindler just meant to show the video to family and friends, but Keaton insisted it go online.
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“We swim in the Bay every day at the Dolphin Club without a shark encounter”, he said. A study from researchers at Stanford in 2009 tracked several great whites in the bay. A big group of white-shark pups was also spotted in Monterey Bay. He thinks El Nino is causing the ocean to warm up, causing sharks to foray farther. Most shark attacks are mistaken identity, he said. “It’s that the center of gravity has shifted somewhat north”, said Sean Van Sommeran, the executive director and founder of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz. The attack is being called the first shark “predation” event in recent history in San Francisco Bay.
The feared great white shark is believed to be as long as 70 years and has no natural predators except the killer whale.
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“For me, it’s pretty exciting and a sign that the health is returning to the San Francisco Bay ecosystem”. There is only one documented fatality from a shark in the San Francisco area, when Albert Kogler Jr. died in less than 15 feet of water in 1959 off of Baker Beach, a mile west of the Golden Gate Bridge.
