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.
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Tourists who recently visited Alcatraz Island got to see a Great White Shark hunting a seal.
The new video appears to show the early stages of the shark going after its lunch. Tourists watched the shark devour a seal by Alcatraz Island.
The photos show this sharks’ famous ability to leap out of the water already poised to attack with jaws wide open.
Great white sharks have been spotted during fall, off the coast of San Francisco, but none had been documented by camera lens or seen visually inside the Golden Gate.
The stunning images of the Great White sharks were taken in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalupe Island, Mexico. A study from researchers at Stanford in 2009 tracked several great whites in the bay.
He attributed the movement to the warming ocean caused by the El Niño weather pattern.
Is this the most terrifying SELFIE ever taken? “It’s that the center of gravity has shifted somewhat north”, he said.
Despite the popular imagery of sharks wreaking havoc on unsuspecting swimmers, the odds of encountering one are extremely low.
The last fatality due to shark attack in San Francisco was reported on May 7, 1959, when Albert Kogler Jr., 18, died while swimming near Baker Beach.
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David McGuire, director of the San Francisco-based shark conservation group Shark Stewards, said the incident was a positive sign for the ecosystem. “I suspect this shark is well fed”.
