An open-water swimmer went missing Sunday afternoon near Lover’s Point Park in Pacific Grove, prompting a multi-agency search. While there’s currently no evidence of an attack, authorities said two unconfirmed witness accounts indicate there may have been shark activity in the area.

As the Chronicle reports, a 55-year-old woman went missing while swimming with a weekly open-water swim group near Monterey Bay’s Pacific Grove Sunday at the popular Lover’s Point Park around noon. Per Santa Cruz’s KSBW, a swimmer from the group reported hearing a “large splash,” prompting everyone to quickly head to shore.

When the victim didn’t return, a multi-agency search-and-rescue effort was launched, including the US Coast Guard, Monterey Fire Department, Seaside Fire, and CAL FIRE, with resources consisting of rescue boats, drones, and helicopters, per KSBW. Per Bay City News, Lovers Point will be closed through Tuesday, as well as nearby McAbee and San Carlos beaches, with advisories in place for Asilomar State Beach, Monterey Municipal Beach, Del Monte Beach, and Monterey State Beach.

While attacks are rare on the Central Coast, authorities said the reports were consistent with potential shark activity, per Bay City News.

Per the Chronicle, the search ended for the day at 8 pm and was set to resume Monday morning.

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A stretch of Bean Hollow State Beach near Pescadero was closed Wednesday morning, after a report of “aggressive shark behavior” that left one kayaker rattled but unharmed.

A Tuesday incident of “aggressive shark behavior” has led officials to close off a portion of a San Mateo County beach near Pescadero, according to the Bay Area News Group. The incident was reported by a kayaker, who was unharmed, but authorities were concerned enough to close the beach.

“Earlier today, we received a report of aggressive shark behavior in the vicinity of Pebble Beach, just south of Pescadero, in state beach jurisdiction,” the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office tweeted late Tuesday afternoon. “A kayaker had a close encounter with a shark, but thankfully emerged unharmed.”

KRON4 reports that as of Wednesday morning, that beach was closed. A sign was posted at the beach’s entry path saying “Shark Incident, Do Not Enter.” There is no further information on the beach’s reopening.

This Pebble Beach is obviously not to be confused with the Monterey County community of Pebble Beach that has the famed golf course. The San Mateo County Pebble Beach is a part of the larger Bean Hollow State Beach, on a coastal area about a half-mile west of Pescadero.

San Mateo County has seen previous shark incidents. Surfers encountered a great white shark in Pacifica in August 2020, and a group of great white sharks was spotted in Half Moon Bay in July 2019.

Related: Humboldt Surfer Attacked By Shark, Survives After Kicking the Fish In the Head [SFist]

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A surfer off the coast of Humboldt County miraculously survived a pretty serious shark bite on Sunday, and his tale provides at least one best practice for getting out of the grip of an attacking shark.

31-year-old surfer Jared Trainor was out on the waves off Centerville Beach on Sunday, a surf spot on California's Lost Coast about ten miles due west of Fortuna, in Humboldt County. Trainor, a resident of Fortuna, is an experienced surfer but he headed to a spot he'd never been to that he'd heard about from a coworker.

As he drove there, he tells the Times-Standard, it occurred to him that this was "Sharktober" — the period in October on the West Coast when shark encounters are most likely, because adult white sharks are returning in their migration from the central Pacific. And, in retrospect, he says "It did seem like there might be a little more seals than normal."

Trainor describes the encounter with the shark in just a few flashes.

"I don't remember the initial contact," he told the newspaper. "It kind of happened so quickly."

He remembers being about four feet below the surface, but he was able to hang on to his board in part because the shark's teeth latched on to it.

"Its lower jaws had the board and its upper jaws had my leg," Trainor says.

Still not sure whether this was a seal or a shark that latched on to him, Trainer says he managed to grab the shark's head in his hands and he kicked it with his foot until it let go and swam off.

Another surfer was luckily at the beach and able to help after asking, "Did that thing get you?" And Trainor says he's grateful the other surfer had a cellphone and signal in this remote spot.

Trainor was able to walk back to his own truck before realizing the extent of his wounds — he called an ambulance and nearly went into cardiac arrest in his trip to the hospital before the wounds could be stapled shut.

The bite marks show about a 19-inch span, indicating this was a pretty large shark, and likely a great white.

If you want to see the gruesome and gory reality of a shark bite, you can flip to the second photo in the Instagram post below from a local surf shop. You've been warned.

The third photo in the post above shows the sizable bite mark on Trainor's surfboard, for reference.

Trainor suffered some nerve damage, and he says he's disappointed he won't be recovered enough to surf later this month on a planned trip to Hawaii. His main worry is that he could have some post-traumatic stress when he tries to get back to the sport he loves.

Also, he tells the Times-Standard, "I haven't actually told my [five-year-old] son directly that this happened. Because I hope that he's not going to lose interest in the sport."

Trainor's sister launched a GoFundMe campaign to cover his medical expenses, which so far has raised $11,000 of a $50,000 goal.

The Ferndale Fire Department posted to Facebook about responding to the shark-bite incident, writing, "To our recollection of our membership, we have not had an incident like this. This is a reminder that there are many hazards to be aware of when you are at the beach."

According to the Sacramento Bee in 2017, Humboldt County had recorded only 16 shark attacks in the last 60 years. But in September 2020, a kayaker narrowly escaped a shark attack in Shelter Cove, as the Chronicle reported.

Last December, a boogie-boarder was killed in a shark attack in Morro Bay, on the Central Coast. And a 62-year-old swimmer survived an attack by a great white shark in Monterey Bay in June.

On Christmas Eve, a 31-year-old man was killed in an apparent shark attack while in the water in Morro Bay. It's the first fatal shark attack of 2021 in the U.S.

Shark attacks on humans remain exceedingly rare, and rarer still are fatal ones. But one unfortunate man with a boogie board in the waters off Morro Bay State Park beach was found unresponsive and face down in the water by a female surfer just before 11 a.m. on Friday. The surfer tried bringing him to shore, but the man, only identified so far as a 31-year-old male, was likely already dead. As ABC News reported, Morro Bay Harbor Patrol soon arrived to assist the surfer in bringing the man to shore.

No one witnessed the actual attack.

The waters off Morro Bay were closed to surfing for 24 hours after the attack, and winter weather and poor surf has likely kept most people away anyway.

Morro Bay Harbor Director Eric Endersby subsequently told the San Luis Obispo Tribune that the bite seen on the man was consistent with that of a great white shark. The cause of death has yet to be confirmed by the county coroner.

This is the first fatal shark attack off the California coast since a May 2020 incident near Santa Cruz in which a 26-year-old surfer was killed.

As the New York Times notes, via data from the Global Shark Attack File, this is the first fatal shark attack in the U.S. this year, and the eighth worldwide. There were three fatal shark incidents in the U.S. in 2020, including the Santa Cruz death, and others in Hawaii and Maine. And indicating the rarity of such attacks, even non-fatal ones, there were 448 non-fatal shark attacks in the U.S. between 2011 to 2020, and only seven fatal ones.

The overall global trend has been toward decreasing fatalities in these attacks, which is credited with heightened public awareness and safety measures taken at shark-frequented beaches.

It's estimated that 61% of all shark attacks on humans occur among those participating in board sports in the water — which experts have said likely due to people's splashing and general activity attracting sharks near the shore looking for seals.

Photo: Marcello Cidrack

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to North Beach, the Detroit and Chicago-style pizzeria Capo’s is setting off a frenzy with a Discovery Channel meetup Shark Week Party.  

The 33-year annual cable TV phenomenon known as Shark Week got underway again Sunday, and the Hot Shark Summer is going swimmingly thus far — except for one of the guys in the Jackass crew who was bit by a shark while attempting to recreate the “Fonzie jumping the shark” scene. There may be more such celebrity injuries broadcasted at the North Beach pizza place Capo’s on Thursday night, when the restaurant, bar and parklet throw their Shark Week Party, which started as a Reddit joke but turned into a real, live event you can really sink your teeth into.

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According to a freshly prepared promo graphic that just went up Wednesday afternoon, Capo’s announced “Join us tomorrow for our Shark Week party! We'll have all of our big screens set to the Discovery channel, and also have live music from 5:30-8:30 from DR & The Blazers.” The promo also promises drink specials like Shark-a-Ritas ($10, Lunazul blanco, pineapple, lime, and  blue curacao), Bikini Bottom Shots (two for $12), Shark Bite Sangria ($10), and PBR cans ($3).

But this time, it's personal. This whole event was hammered out in a Tuesday Reddit Ask/SF thread entitled Shark Week Bar?, wherein a user asked “Anybody know a bar that’s showing Shark Week on its TVs?” Before long, a respondent claiming to be a Capo’s manager responded “Guys, I’ve got shark hats and other fun decorations, while supplies last! Shark Week Party on Thursday!,” and suddenly, fin-nicky SF Shark Week fans had a place to watch the proceedings with their chums.

Capo’s is part of the pizza empire founded by Tony Gemignani, a Fremont native and the “Michael Jordan of Pizza Throwing” who’s also behind Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, Slice House locations all over California, and pizza concepts elsewhere across the west coast. Prior to Tuesday Board of Supervisors vote on permanent parklets, Gemignani told NBC Bay Area, “If we can’t make up for the lost [pandemic] income by just having some additional seating, I don’t know where we’ll be.”

Boom. Shark Week Party to the rescue.

Sure, Shark Week has long given up on its roots in marine education and conservation awareness, and is now a hotbed for junk science and shady "documentaries." And they don’t even have good celebrities anymore, like they did in bygone era of hosts like Andy Samberg and Rob Riggle. But if you want a Shark Week meetup, there should be plenty of fish at Capo’s on Thursday night.

Shark Week Party is Thursday, June 15 from 4:30-9:30 p.m. at Capo’s (641 Vallejo Street, at Columbus Ave.), No Admission Fee

Related: Great White Shark Drags Fishing Boat Around SF Bay For Over An Hour [SFist]

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A group of surfers floating off Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica last Tuesday say that an eight-foot great white shark swam right under them, and appeared to head for one female surfer on her board in particular. The close encounter comes just three months after a surfer in Santa Cruz was killed in a rare shark attack.

Surfer Bevan Bell tells the Chronicle this week that he was the first to spot the shark, which appeared to be heading directly for a female surfer trying to catch a wave in front him in a cluster of surfers.

"I saw this big gray shape, just under the surface of the water, and that top fin, and the big shark went directly under her," Bell says. "The length of that sucker was like 8 feet. It went right towards her, and as the wave lifted her up [on her board], it literally went right under her."

Bell says that he was yelling at the surfer to pull her legs out of the water, but she didn't understand what he was saying.

And reinforcing that sharks are a familiar sight to surfers in the area, another surfer shouted a question: "Is it the 6 footer, or the 12 footer?" He added, "I’m not worried about the 6 footer."

As the Chronicle notes, juvenile shark under eight feet tend to mostly eat fish, and it's only the older, larger sharks that go after bigger prey like sea lions. Most shark experts tend to agree that sharks aren't interested in attacking humans, per se, but they recognize the shape of legs in wet suits hanging off surfboards as sea lions, and will sometimes attack.

The drone video below from September 2019 shows a great white shark prowling another beach in Pacifica — a good look at the shark comes at around the 4:00 mark.

Shark attacks, especially fatal ones, remain rare — and since the May attack that killed 26-year-old Ben Kelly occurred in Santa Cruz, we can still say that the Bay Area proper hasn't seen a fatal shark attack in over 35 years.

A report published six years ago suggests that the great white shark population is on the rise in the waters near the Bay Area, and it estimated at the time that there were about 2,400 great whites prowling the California coast — up from just a few hundred according to earlier estimates.

"I thought how a nip could be the end of it," Bell tells the Chronicle. "You don’t have to be chomped. You get bit and you can bleed out."

He adds, "Seeing a great white shark is kind of like seeing a bad car wreck. You’re constantly thinking, ‘It won’t happen to me,’ and it doesn’t stop me from driving. But it is definitely one of those things where you are aware that you are in their territory."

Related: Surfer Killed In Shark Attack in Santa Cruz

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A 26-year-old surfer was attacked by a shark and killed Saturday afternoon about 100 yards off Sand Dollar Beach, and this was the first fatality from a shark attack in the region in decades.

The attack happened around 1:30 p.m. near the northern end of Monterey Bay, as ABC 7 reports. 26-year-old Ben Kelly, a Santa Cruz County resident, was surfing just south of Manresa State Beach when an unknown species of shark attacked him. Now, until May 14, the waters will be closed to swimming and surfing up to one mile south and one mile north of San Dollar Beach, where the attack took place.

Kelly was reportedly pronounced dead at the scene.

In a statement, California State Parks wrote, "State Parks expresses its deepest sympathy to the family of the victim."

As the Chronicle reports, Manresa State Beach was already closed to sunbathers as part of the state's efforts to encourage social distancing, though swimming and surfing were still allowed.

KRON4 reporter Amy Larson posted aerial photos from a friend on Twitter showing a lot of recent great white shark activity, apparently in the vicinity of Santa Cruz.

A shark attack happened at Sand Dollar Beach in Santa Cruz County today. My friend Eric Mailander has been observing dozens of great white sharks swimming near shore lately and shot these photos. Shark attacks against people are extremely rarehttps://t.co/9yrsS2tRWf @kron4news pic.twitter.com/2Lzw3Kkypj

— Amy Larson (@AmyLarson25) May 9, 2020

Shark attacks in California are rare, with each year on average seeing less than two — and fatal shark attacks are even rarer. According to the California Academy of Sciences, there have only ever been 9 fatal shark attacks off the California coast in recorded history, before this one, and only 99 unprovoked shark attacks overall. With Saturday's attack, that would make 100.

And the Academy of Sciences says that white sharks are the only species here that pose a danger to humans.

A shark attacked a kayaker in Monterey Bay in May 2017, and a subsequent attack on a kayaker in July 2017 shut down the beaches around Santa Cruz for several days.

Below is a map of every recorded shark attack in and around the Bay Area that was first published in 2015. At that time, the Chronicle reported that the last fatality from a shark attack near San Francisco occurred in 1959, at Baker Beach — but Wikipedia notes that a diver was attacked and killed by a shark off Pigeon Point in San Mateo County in 1984. The most recent fatalities from shark attacks in California happened in 2010 and 2012 in Santa Barbara County.

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It looks like the recent great white shark migration into the Bay Area is very real, and at least one came into San Francisco Bay on Saturday where it got hooked on a fisherman's line and proceeded to tow the fishing boat around for about two miles before the shark could be freed.

Captain Joey Gamez of Golden Gate Sport Fishing tells his tale to KPIX/CBS SF, and he says he's never experienced anything like this in the twenty years that he's been fishing in the Bay four to five days a week. Gamez was in his boat with six other fishermen about a half mile out from Alcatraz when he hooked the great white, and he describes the force as "like hooking into a Volkswagen that was a hundred feet deep and just trying to hold on to the rod and reel."

Gamez fought the animal for over an hour as it dragged the fishing vessel around the Bay, still with the hook in its mouth. Gamez, who drives in from Tracy to take sport fishermen out on these excursions, estimates that the shark was six to eight feet long. He says that while he's hooked sharks large and small before — between three and 400 pounds — he's never caught a great white before, and it put up quite a fight.

Ultimately Gamez was able to free the fish, and took some dramatic footage of the ordeal that you can see below.

Great white shark sightings were made by multiple pilots in recent weeks over the San Mateo County coast, with one sighting claiming to have spotted four sharks together near the beach in Half Moon Bay.

Experts say the sharks tend to return to the Bay Area, and particularly to the area around the Farallon Islands, to feed in the late summer and early fall after migrating out to the deep ocean.

Sightings of great whites in the Bay are rare but not unheard of. A family of tourists shot the video below in October 2015 after spotting a great white feeding on a seal near Alcatraz.

Surfers and ocean swimmers are being cautioned that there have been several sightings of great white sharks near the San Francisco Peninsula — and this is the typical time of year that sharks show up in the area from their migration to the deep ocean.

Multiple pilots have reported seeing the large marine beasts from the air off the San Mateo County coast, as ABC 7 reports. And as NBC Bay Area reports, four sharks were seen from the air in recent days about 40 yards from the beach near the Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay.

Sharks tend to come to shallow water in search of warmth, because they are sensitive to temperature, experts say. And as the Chronicle explains, great whites come to feed around the Farallon Islands in late summer and fall, after making annual trips out to deeper waters.

A separate great white sighting happened last month off the Sonoma coast, near Bodega Bay, which halted some county sheriff's deputies from doing some water training.

Back in March a jet skier at Mavericks shooed a shark away from a group of surfers, and brought the surfers back to shore before anyone could get bitten.

There are roughly 65 shark attacks worldwide each year, and many of those happen to surfers. As Swim Outlet explains, shark experts tend to believe that most shark attacks on humans are cases of mistaken identity — people in wetsuits paddling on surfboards bear a resemblance, from below, to swimming seals, which are sharks' prey of choice.

If you spot any sharks, you're encouraged to contact local law enforcement — and get the hell out of the water.

Related: Jet Skier Saves Mavericks Surfers From Enormous Great White Shark

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife revealed that as many as 2,000 leopard sharks have died in the San Francisco Bay over the past few months. But, they said that due to limited resources, they won't be able to fully research how to stop the cause of these die-offs.

NBC Bay Area investigated the CDFW's findings, speaking with Dr. Mark Okihiro, a research scientist with the CDFW. According to him, the department believes a pathogen or parasite is the most likely cause of death. He also explained why, after months of die-offs, this particular parasite is a problem. He said, "This year is unusual in that there has been a large number of other species that have also been dying. This pathogen can tackle a variety of different species … we've had a much more diverse group of fish that have been found dead in the San Francisco Bay."

After much research, Dr. Okihiro found a specific parasite that was common amongst all shark deaths in the Bay. "We're pretty confident at this point," he said. "It's called Miamiensis avidus … it's a small single celled organism. It's very similar to the common amoeba." He went on to describe how the parasite attacks the shark's brain, swimming up through its nose and slowly eating away at it. Eventually the shark succumbs to the parasite and either ends up swimming in circles aimlessly or they end up beaching themselves. In any case, if a shark ever stops swimming, it sinks to the bottom of the ocean — they're not naturally buoyant. That's where the CDFW has found the vast majority of shark corpses, since only a small fraction of sharks that fall victim to the parasite end up beaching themselves, explained Dr. Okihiro.

There's a significant worry that this parasite could spread farther along the West Coast, and that it could also potentially affect more species beyond leopard sharks, as Dr. Okihiro said. But the CDFW is unable to dedicate resources to researching this parasite. Gabe Tiffany, Deputy Director of Administration for the CDFW, explained that the department is just straight up strapped for resources right now, saying, "We have a lot of constraints on how our programs are funded."

Deputy Director Jordan Traverso also went on to break down just where the department's priorities lie right now. She said, "Some of the current priorities include implementing the Marine Life Protection Act and establishing and monitoring Marine Protected Areas, rebuilding impacted fisheries (Chinook salmon in-river and the ocean, red urchin, red abalone), addressing the kelp die-off along the north-central and north coast, and implementing a different water management scheme to provide healthier fish populations in the Central Valley rivers, Delta, and San Francisco Bay."

On top of dealing with all of those issues, the CDFW is currently dealing with a lawsuit filed by an environmentalist group who is accusing them of being responsible for the deaths of endangered or threatened whales. In their lawsuit, the Center for Biological Diversity argue that their responsibility stems from the fact that the CDFW authorized and managed a fishery that used Dungeness crab pots, which later got loose and ended up getting tangled up with passing whales. An NOAA report revealed that at least 21 whales died as a result of these entanglements.

Despite all this, Dr. Andrew Nosal, a marine biologist at UC San Diego, warned that the shark die-offs are a "canary in a coal mine," and urged the CDFW to take action. He said, "When they die and wash ashore, it’s pretty obvious. We see it. But what about all the other species that, perhaps, are getting sick and dying and simply sinking to the bottom that we just don’t know about? There’s a lot more at stake here than just leopard sharks."

Related: Shark Attack In Santa Cruz Closes Beaches

A shark attack near the Santa Cruz shore has prompted beach closures and presumably an uptick in folks watching Jaws on Netflix.

SFGate reports that a shark tried to take a bite out of a kayak yesterday at around 11 a.m. near West Cliff Drive and Pelton Avenue. Water activity off beaches within a mile of the attack, including Main Beach, Cowell Beach and other ocean access areas, have been banned until Saturday.

Santa Cruz Deputy City Manager Scott Collins said that the kayaker was not injured but that his kayak sustained "serious damage." I'm sure we all remember when a shark attacked a kayaker in Monterey Bay last March and the whole thing was caught on video.

The Tribune News Service has all of the gory details of yesterday's attack, including that rescue crews arrived within 90 seconds of the call for help and that the kayaker was an experienced one, carrying his own VHF radio. (Let's buy one on Amazon right now.)

According to KRON 4, the kayaker is Steve Lawson and the shark was a great white.

"Attacks like these are extremely rare in Santa Cruz County and we are so thankful that the kayaker wasn't injured. This is a reminder that swimming in the ocean does carry some risk and we encourage all swimmers, surfers and kayakers to be mindful of their surroundings and follow directions of lifeguards and marine safety staff," Santa Cruz Fire Chief Jim Frawley told the Tribune News Service.

Those who do decide to hop in the waters nearby the attack could be cited for breaking the imposed ban if they do so before the ban is lifted this weekend. "We don't want to do that," said Frawley. "Marine safety staff and lifeguards will monitor the area in the meantime."

Lawson told KRON 4 that he planned to head back out on the water this morning, presumably somewhere far, far away from the place a shark tried to eat him alive.

Related: Video: Shark Attacks Kayaker In Monterey Bay

Kayaker Brian Correiar had a terrifying brush with a great white shark recently when the shark slammed into his kayak and sent him flying into the water in Monterey Bay. This all happened on Saturday, March 18 at 4:30 in the afternoon, and video of the incident is just now surfacing from a bystander at San Carlos Beach. In a blog post on diver.net Correiar describes the situation:

Suddenly, I heard a loud Bang as my kayak and I flew into the air. I landed outside my boat, look back to it and to my horror saw a large great white shark no more than three feet away had my kayak in its mouth. I could clearly see it's 2-inch teeth and it's black eye that looked lifeless.

I scrambled away from my boat as fast as I could and started kicking towards shore - really wishing that I was wearing fins! In between yelling "No God No" I was shocked at how many thoughts about how to survive ran through my head - don't splash, don't let your legs hang down, keep your eyes on the shark and swim away, don't act like a panicked seal. After Five minutes, maybe five years - it was hard to tell, I pulled out my Nautilus Lifeline and called in a mayday to the coast guard. They were having trouble hearing me. I spotted a sail boat and started frantically waving to them with my right arm as I operated the radio with my left hand.

And it gets worse:

I saw it spin with the boat at least three times. It started pushing the boat towards me and then left the boat and headed for me. Suddenly it dove. I put my face in the water to see if it was under me, but I couldn’t see anything.

Correiar was soon rescued by the Coast Guard, and they found his kayak covered in bite marks.

Previously: Gang Of About 20 Great White Sharks Spotted Off Ocean Beach And Pacifica

A whale of a tale this morning from KTVU who feasted on some footage from Monterey Bay of a pod of killer whales feasting on a Sevengill shark: The video comes from Slater Moore Photography, who wrote that they "encountered these infrequently sighted Killer Whales on the 9 a.m. trip aboard the SeaWolf II" earlier this week. "This ecotype of Killer Whales often travels in large groups and were seen about this time last December," the photographer writes, indicating that there were around 25 of the whales and revealing that the video was taken via aerial drone.

"These whales are typically smaller in size than the Bigg's or transient Killer Whale type and they had several very young calves with them," the photographer adds. Indeed, the largest of the whales appears to surrender the shark's body to its young so they can eat, too.

Mary Jane Schramm of the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary explained the feeding process a bit to KTVU. Often, she said of the Sevengilll shark, "They flip over on their backs and all of a sudden they slip into what's called tonic immobility... Some animals if they're attacked by a predator, instead of fleeing or fighting, they simply become still, like you might have heard the expression 'playing 'possum.'" Next time the black fish attacks, maybe it's time to try another move.

Related: Video: Whales Breaching In Bay Freak Out Nearby Kayaker

A man kayaking in San Francisco Bay Saturday morning spotted the shark you see in the video above, which swam up to his kayak and then under it before swimming off.

He was not able to identify the species, but it was possibly a spiny dogfish? Dogfish sharks only grow to between two and four feet long.

There are, as we know, even bigger sharks in the Bay at times, like the great white caught on video preying on a seal near Alcatraz last fall. Great white sightings have become more common here, especially in this El Nino year due to warmer waters, and a cluster of about 20 great whites was spotted off of Ocean Beach just two weeks after that Alcatraz sighting.

Related: Here's A Map Of Every Shark Attack Ever In The Bay Area

Video taken by surfers at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica on Sunday morning shows a shark, very close to shore, making breakfast of a seal. KRON 4 picked up the news, and got requisitely dramatic about the fact that this was happening so close to where people were surfing. No one was injured, but it is a reminder that sharks do sometimes come near our beaches, and that surfing is not without its hazards.

The video shows the shark flailing around a bit as it attacks the seal, and bits of reddish water appearing.

The surfing family with three kids shown in KRON 4's video spoke to the Examiner as well, with mom Stephani Ebinger reporting that everyone started paddling quickly into shore as soon as one surfer spotted the shark's fin. A shark, possibly the same one, was also spotted at the same beach, roughly 80 yards offshore, last Thursday.