Huntington Beach Watch Commander Lt. Claude Panis told KTLA-TV in Los Angeles the closure was centered at Beach Boulevard and extended one mile along the coast in each direction.
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The waters off Huntington Beach are now closed to swimmers and surfers after a surfer had a close encounter with a great white shark.
A shark bumped a surfer Friday in Huntington Beach, prompting lifeguards to order everyone out of the ocean until tomorrow morning. “A bump like that is classified as an aggressive behavior by a shark”. Authorities deemed the report “credible” and immediately closed the waters.
The Huntington Beach incident happened at 8:45 a.m. near Beach Boulevard and the surfer, who is not being identified by lifeguards, went to Huntington Beach City lifeguard headquarters to inform lifeguards of the encounter.
Mostly, they have been spotted in the Sunset Beach and Surfside area, where a group of juveniles have been feeding on stingrays, experts believe.
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He is known to several of the Marine Safety staff and he had a visible sighting of the shark as it swam away. In the past, the sharks have not been aggressive and have not attacked humans. The transmitters track the sharks’ movements and provide researchers with other information.
